Assistant Village Idiot

You may remember the Monty Python sketch about The Pirhana Brothers, Doug and Dinsdale At the age of fifteen Doug and Dinsdale started atten...

I have added to my sidebar, in the Oddly Beautiful category with Jerub-baal and Liquid Sculptures, the following photographs. Amazing.

The voting for best weblogs starts tomorrow. You can see the complete list of nominations here. Just reading the names of them is intrigui...

Few things please me more than when this self-righteous bastard (who I once voted for, BTW) gets exposed. Again.

Gagdad Bob over at One Cosmos has a post, "Will Stem-Cell Research Lead to a Cure For Progressivism?" which relates to several o...

“Kindling” is a concept brought over from the treatment of seizure disorders. Once you have had seizures, your threshold is lowered, and yo...

Note: Killing time at meetings today, I got 122 European rivers. Took the whole 90 minutes, though. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stages of...

Really.

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit makes an interesting comment about Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, in the context of a biogra...

Many people keep photos and sentimental memoribilia of their family at work. Included in mine are two notes from my second son, probably fr...

Miss Hardcastle, a singularly unpleasant chief of the security police in Lewis’s That Hideous Strength , corrects a rising sociologist. He h...

I confess I like a lot of the things I’ve written over the last year. Yeah, yeah, humble people aren't supposed to say things like tha...

When I follow the Instapundit links, I sometimes find myself hopping through, link to link, and discovering interesting blogs. I clicked th...

I didn't even see a picture on the news story, and I don't think I remember what she looks like, but hers is a movie name I have act...

Discovered via Tigerhawk. I scored 24.45759% Geek, which is just short of Total Geek. Yes they do use that many significant digits. I think...

There is considerable discussion in Europe and among Europe-watchers of the impact the birthrate will have long-term for European culture. ...

TCSDaily, which used to be known as tech central station, has more than an average number of fascinating articles this week. Economist Nath...

Boring meetings call for important time-killing strategies. I personally recommend geography, writing down your answers on the back of your...

Some questions start to generate multiple answers as soon as they are asked. In our great divide in America, we do have general agreement th...