Assistant Village Idiot

I have little doubt you are all fascinated by the history of lyrics of Christian hymnody. Sure you are, I can hear it in your silvery voice...

Reprinted from last February: A friend spoke movingly about prison ministry at church yesterday. He spoke about a man he was working with w...

Why do I still see so many Kerry or Kerry-Edwards stickers? Not that I never see a Bush-Cheney sticker, but they're rare. Is it just ...

The Scriptures are the record of how God plays Twenty Questions with us. The rules are a little different than the parlor game we're us...

The supposed difficulty of nuclear power is what to do with all the radioactive waste. Nuts to that. The difficulty is any danger from radi...

I am training myself not to begin reviews of excellent books by telling you what’s wrong with them. First, the summary, so you can pretend ...

Lebron James is going to represent Cub Cadet Lawn Tractors. He thought it was "sort of a good fit," and part of his "being a...

I can see the beginnings of my Arts & Humanities Tribe thinking in a post from last February, Parallel Hatreds. I recall going into Wal...

Among the oddities from last February, there was a post on Irish Hurling, another on the deterioration of Habitat For Humanity, and a thir...

I am back on the edges of this tax-protestor thing again – from a different direction and partly my own fault. Ah well. One of their argume...

I have been assuming that you all know that Instapundit should be your first source for news every day. On the chance that some here don...

The flap over Dice-K's Japanese beer commercial. One commenter brilliantly writes: I'm not pithy enough to find a different phras...

Kenneth Anderson of Washington College of Law at American University and the Hoover Institute at Stanford has an article which will be dear ...

It occurred to me today in adult Sunday School that all churches are seeker-friendly in some sense. Any church that has members had folks w...

I never much cared when I was younger whether men or women were smarter, being much more self-centered than that. So long as I was smarter,...

Harvard Law professor Charles Fried is being kicked by both the left and right at present. That's no guarantee of correctness, but it...

My son submitted several photos of himself to one of those sites which tells you which celebrities you look like. I was unimpressed with th...

I have mentioned before that emigration of native Belgians, Brits, Germans, and Dutch is increasing yearly. Now it's the Swedes. Immi...

Two decades ago, my brother was describing to me what a great gig it was doing lights for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. A friend of his had th...

I mentioned in my post on genealogy and DNA my brief attempt to try and discover Chris and John-Adrian’s ancestry beyond the parents’ names ...