Assistant Village Idiot

In my post about the YouTube debate, Partly Snookered , I am inordinately proud of myself that I noticed that Yasmin's question was fals...

Of the friends who heard me on "All Things Considered," all have mentioned the same favorite comment: " Something, something...

Listening intently to NPR, waiting to hear a segment with ME in it, I caught what they were reporting about the death of Henry Hyde. My fir...

Rudy Giuliani answering the Yankee fan at the debate made a comment that must look like an evasion to younger baseball fans, but which I und...

Physics prof Chad Orzel (via Kevin Drum and Glenn Reynolds) discovers that of the 100 Notable Books for 2007 according to the New York Time...

Update: The piece aired at 4:40, and I think NPR covered us fairly. What came across in the segment was pretty much what occurred in the r...

A few months ago I offered a proposal for each party getting rid of its own dirtbags in a post Desperate Measures . Just a few months later,...

Today’s war news is brought to you by the barbers of Iraq. In fact, most war news is brought to you by the barbers of Iraq. Media critics ...

While researching a potentially dangerous armed cult that one of my patients belongs to, I was struck by how many of its positions were not ...

People at work ask me who I'm supporting in the upcoming primary. This has seldom happened before. The few conservatives know me as so...

I meant to post this two months ago, Ilya Somin's observation over at the lawblog Volokh Conspiracy that clergy often make pronouncemen...

John Podhoretz skewers Sally Quinn's essay in celebration of the first anniversary of On Faith, a joint effort by Newsweek and the Wa...

Once again the advantage of the family custom of reading books before they are given as gifts pays off. I am buying the above title (by Tho...

The idea that what we call PTSD is a normal response to an abnormal situation is not new. Blackfive takes it a step further, suggesting th...

Via Maggie's Farm, we have this wonderful video from An Englishman's Castle. Great site, too.

A remarkable report from the Mudville Gazette, a milblog from Iraq. Interspersed throughout the essay are repeated articles detailing the ...

Law professor Arthur Allen Leff's essay with the title above was excerpted by Glenn Reynolds. Leff adroitly handles the dilemma of the...

Is this a defense I see before me? Doc Shakespeare. I keep worrying we're all going to pay for this later. Three feet of snow overnigh...

I started at Maggie's Farm with an excellent quote from Georgetown professor Patrick Dineen's commentary on the attitudes underlyin...

One of the Assistant Village Idiot's rules for working in mental health, and probably for life in general is "Never be so arrogant ...