Assistant Village Idiot

Pajamas Media has a commentary on the attempt in CA to require homeschooling parents to have a teaching credential . Parents who homeschool ...

Pastor Earl mentioned the 70 Israelites growing to 2.6 million in Egypt. Mentioned it in passing, I should note. Steve at church immediate...

There are ultimately only two prayers, Please and Thank you.

Corresponding with my brother down at East Carolina, I commented on my relationship with our stepfather (summary: Never close; sometimes ant...

I ran into young friend active in Chicago politics at Midway airport. I don't think we need be concerned whether I am increasingly amaz...

What if the Book of Genesis had been lost and only recently rediscovered? Had the canon started with Exodus, I doubt the skeptics would be ...

My eldest son and I listened to Car Talk on the way to pick up some dachshunds this morning. It is Spring pledge drive at NHPR. These peopl...

An urban legend circulated at work yesterday - "The Groom's/Bride's Revenge," which comes in numerous iterations, and invo...

I have a patient on my caseload who owns a cat, of which he is fond. Mental Health clients have pets less frequently than the general popul...

I notice both live and in print, progressives seem to put more energy into making their response witty (whether they are quoting, inventing,...

Just a few things I found in my travels: Harvard Econ professor and textbook-write Greg Mankiw connects us to Robert Samuelson's Hold T...

So, why is this funny when she does it, but if the kid on the skateboard did it we'd be infuriated?

On the way from Houston to Austin on 290 (my son Ben details some of the problems of the trip here ), we kept seeing signs for Giddings. No...

Iowahawk is running for president, and has an important message of unity . I have to admit I had second thoughts once we arrived back in Ame...

Political campaigns are about establishing your brand, I'm told. Brands are stand-ins for serious ideas. At best, they're synedoch...

Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling makes an odd observation "There is plenty of time for Obama to make a recovery in Penns...

I am posting from Texas at the moment. Should I use a larger font? Stuff White People Like has a recent posting Having Gay Friends , the co...

Though we use the terms interchangeably, fools and idiots are opposites. “Simpleton” would be a more accurate term than “idiot” in this con...

If children learn all these subtle sexist and racist prejudices from adults who are trying to disguise and deny them, why don’t children pic...

Update: Bird Dog over at Maggie's Farm has posted on a very similar topic today, based on a marvelous essay of GK Chesterton's. Few...