Assistant Village Idiot

With all the Oprahfication and Obama-hugging and Hillary-crying, I don't see that John Edwards has been engaging in it. And he's the...

Strange Maps calls it The Blonde Map of Europe, but a closer examination shows it to be the distribution of light hair in Europe, with the...

Do you work better under pressure? Work harder when there's a deadline? Do you resent external accountability while you are under it, ...

(Instalanche: Welcome. The best way to browse here is to click on a random month in the archives, or one of the "extended comments...

Distractions have prevented me from doing the work I should on a couple of longer posts, but I haven't forgotten. "Just War Part V...

If you needed another reason to hate Roger Clemens .

No surge for Thompson in the polls that have tended to be the most accurate. I vote for McCain in the morning. Vote Defensively. There are...

Fellow Granite Stater Jay Tea over at Wizbang reports a distressing political discussion with someone who is fortunately, unlikely to vote....

Being unruffled is so pleasant in and of itself, that it is worth practicing even when the situation does call for panic.

Fred does not seem to be surging, though the reports are he did very well in the debate. Two have asked who I would vote for if I were a De...

Michael Novak has an article over at National Review about the different types of atheists. While the cautions he offers to atheists and t...

If we view each vote not as a piece of victory, but a piece of information to those who will lead us, then helping your guy move from a 17% ...

According to what he told Vanity Fair . Who are your favorite writers? In alphabetical order: Jorge Luis Borges, Gabor Boritt, Ray Bradbury,...

Don’t worry, Mom. I know Europe like the back of my hand Far and away the line of the year. We were packing the car to head for Logan Air...

Update: Link fixed Do people become dieticians because they like tinkering endlessly with other people "for their own good," or d...

Decades ago, I picked up a rock at a lake shore and threw it into the water. “That rock worked for 10,000 years to get that far up the shor...

Claudia Rosett is on the case again . The US is an all-you-can-eat buffet (or perhaps bouffe ) at the UN.

The rhetoric among the Democrats that Obama is the one to bring us together has irritated me for three reasons. First, it is that reliance ...

I have spent a great deal of preparatory time discussing the failure of the United Nations in the lead-up to discussing the morality of the ...

To be followed by "Part IV - The Long Boring Part" Summary statement, for those who wish to avoid the evidence and reasoning and w...