Assistant Village Idiot

Commenter Larry (see the penultimate Minimum Wage comment) has been having a blogspot/spam problem of some sort. My reply: Whoa, Larry. I ...

Jerub-baal has posted interesting comments about the German artist who wants to put a dying person out in a museum as installation art. He...

The hospital has a work-training program for patients. Some jobs are vaguely comparable to competitive employment - washing dishes, operati...

Mythusmage, commenting on Major Tammes' injury at Miserable Donuts , is perhaps not quite sympathetic about the broken finger, even thou...

I am giving a presentation tomorrow about a narrow area of mental health law in NH. I am not an attorney, but the nature of my job means th...

I have mentioned once before that Obama is a human Rorschach test - people see what they want - but the blog Stubborn Facts has taken this...

If you are a creationist, you believe that we are descended from 2+ people in SW Asia about 6,000 years ago. If you are an evolutionist, you...

Hey-Bama, O-Bama, Bama, Bama-O, Bama-Hey Bama-O Bahmah. Hey BaREE, BaREE, won't you fight for me? Bama-O, Bama-hey, Superstar!

Charles Murray is always controversial. He is also very difficult to argue with. His recent article in New Criterion discusses " educ...

The term tar baby has gone off-limits. Old guys like me might still get away with using it, because we grew up in an era where the term ha...

The ability to laugh at himself is the best short-cut method to knowing if a guy is balanced, confident, mature. I think this applies to wo...

I don't generally hear good things about NCLB. Many teachers find it a useless intrusion that eats up time. Greg Forster at pajamasmed...

I use a shaving mug and brush because it reminds me of my grandfathers. The odd part of that is I never saw either of them use one or saw o...

I have been rereading my Tom Stoppard, one of the few writers who can cause me to both think and laugh out loud. Today it was "The Rea...

I don't really feel up to it, but tomorrow will be too late. Cleveland's main chance is if LeTravel gets the benefit of calls in bot...

I just finished Balaker and Staley's The Road More Traveled. 1. Congestion costs us more than we think, in money, time, rearranging ou...

You have to figure he'll look much better in Cleveland. I expect at least one lights-out performance from him. But LeBron James's ...

Wellness and Green, the two near-religions of our workplace, joined forces today and took over the lobby. Because nothing is more important...

Ten years ago we would chat easily with our friends about the impending empty nest. We would be the first in our little circle to have all ...