Assistant Village Idiot

Akafred notes that however much we protest not liking more government involvement in health care, we are likely to quickly grow addicted to ...

It seems every time I go over to First Things I kick myself for not going more regularly. The sociology of religion is profoundly annoying ...

Justin Wilson's funeral is Wednesday. Chris is in Florida with the family. He will be reading something for the ceremony, a short piece...

A friend sent me a youtube clip of Gabe Lyons being interviewed about his book Unchristian. I think I'd like the lad. His premise is...

There can't be many brackets in good shape at this point. ESPN tells us that Obama's is in the top 12% - which means, BTW, that he...

I hadn't known he wasn't a paid actor

Akafred mentioned seeing Jose Feliciano in concert and hearing him do a lightedhearted number about Chicano versions of commercials. Sounde...

Such passages have no purpose except to insinuate a chill of doubt - a chill which the writer himself has caught he knows not where. They w...

Chesterton had read an essay in The Nation (yes, the same one), "On Chivalry In War," and wrote an answer to it. The article inc...

There are occasional commenters on righty blogs who suggest that revolution, including possible violence, may be in store for us. I have li...

It's a hedgehog. Really.

Here’s where it’s infuriating working with progressives (not all of them). I am very careful at work to whom I mention Chris’s sad news abo...

Just because I like them.

I have not weighed in much on the health care debate, though I have followed it closely. I consider some important aspects neglected by mos...

Inside St. Matthias Church

Ben tells me he has picked out one of the clues from season one that has just showed up again, and thinks he can project a lot of its meanin...

Chris called this morning to say that his best friend "Wilson" had been killed in Afghanistan. We had heard about Wilson over the...

Related to the adoption series, pictures I took in Budapest in 2001. Most of these were taken a stone's throw from our hotel. Really. ...

I ran across a marvelous quote today while trekking through the swamps of Paul De Man writing tor the Nazis, Jacques Lacan's impregnatin...