Assistant Village Idiot

Have I got this wrong? The Celtic's magic number to make the playoffs is 6. Any combination of Atlanta losses and Boston wins totaling...

To add to my entire Cultural Tribes section the estimable John O'Sullivan made the following observations in the NY Sun recently, aprop...

Speaking to the Boston Globe about her husband's upbringing by her mother-in-law ...sometimes dreams don't pay the rent. Exactly my...

Megan McArdle, guest-blogging over at Instapundit, makes a wise observation about near-fringe candidates, in the context of Nader's anno...

Driving down to the wake I saw the word ensemble on a sign in Norwell. Huh - it must be related to assemble...semblance...resemble. What...

There Is A God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew. If this were a real review, I wouldn't be ...

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Following the death of her mother, my wife has intended to make dinners for her father using the food from the freezer on their porch. Trac...

A first for me. I often look up patients new to the MH system on the web to see what I can learn about them. The paranoid, angry, psychoti...

Who does this video make you think of, eh? I had not heard of this band, but I like them. Their outfits are very 90's - not surprisin...

I checked the email after the funeral, and had another interesting note from my Uncle Dave. Wonderful guy. I am very like him, but we disag...

I will be away for the next two days, staying down in Scituate (the Irish Riviera) for my mother-in-law's wake and funeral. For a diabe...

This will only have meaning to a few of my readers, but those few will appreciate it. My son Chris has Mike Zylak's judgment and Ben...

ESPN has Detroit and Boston at the top of the rankings, followed by teams from the west in the next nine slots. Only eight of those nine w...

Today you built part of the elderly personality you are going to be, when your digestion isn't so good, more joints ache, and other comf...

I have put forward this excellent Lewis quote before “Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes ...

Like Monty Python and The Princess Bride , some things are funnier when you talk about them after than when you actually watched them. I t...

John Weidner writes the article I wish I had over at his blog Random Jottings. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, writing at alternet , predicts that ...

For those who like research papers, Alfred E. Kahn's discussion of recent economic objectives of Democrats might suit. The assumption ...