Assistant Village Idiot

A conservative site which will remain nameless has a post today about progressive attitudes toward children. It is perhaps fair game to poi...

NPR did a short piece on the Woodstock Museum this morning. The 1969 event has taken on mythic proportions, both positive and negative. Her...

A repost of where the idea of "postliberal" comes from. There were quite a few comments - well, sort of. Nothing against conserva...

One of my all-time favorite players, Jason Varitek, is now a liability to the Red Sox. His OBP has always been low, but this year it is atro...

In my recent repost There Is No System, I did not make the concept specific to free markets. I spoke with a friend at work today who belie...

The First Congregational Church of Dunbarton, NH is on summer sabbatical, according to their sign. It seems odd to be taking Sabbaths off a...

In my role as Assistant Village Idiot, I again point out the obvious, because it seems not to be noticed. In any persuasive essay or discuss...

Reprinted from Sept 2006 ...So contemplating that “system” and how it got there, and what our place in it should be, or what we should do, w...

Saving you the trouble of looking these up. Solar on the immediate horizon. Nanosolar Cold fusion, of which I am always suspicious of new d...

I had a fascinating correspondence with Grady Towers in the pre-email days of my Prometheus Society membership. Grady succeeded me briefly ...

It's so easy to get behind the curve. All of a sudden, Barack's humorlessness is the topic of the hour. I try to contribute my bit...

Megan McArdle over at The Atlantic explains why David Horsey's cartoon about McCain is not equivalent to the New Yorker cover of the Ob...

Goffstown, NH

These take awhile to load. I sang along, remembering every word I loved Clutch Cargo, especially the dog, Paddlefoot. But even then I knew ...

Reprinted from August 2006 There is a longish but excellent article over at the Social Affairs Unit discussing "Wealth and Poverty: A ...

All the brouhaha over Obama's Church and Rev. Wright have shone a light on the religious left, long believed extinct, or at least moribu...

Eric over at Classical Values links at the end of the post to a story at WorldNet Daily that declares the actions of one gay man suing Bibl...

From Carl, at No Oil For Pacifists. Never bet the "under" on Euro-silliness. Full silliness here .

I haven't scoured old posts for reprints for over a year. Not only are there a lot of comments on this post, but there are even two fro...

Without JD Drew, the Red Sox would have been in free-fall in the month of June. He batted in or scored 1/3 of their runs (and no, I didn...