Assistant Village Idiot

John Wooden died today at 99. My favorite anecdote about him is still the Story of the Socks.

George Will reviews William Voegeli's Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State in his Thursday column. I chose the link at...

I came across this essay by David Friedman via Mark Amagi at GM's Place. Friedman has a Doctorate in Physics but teaches law at Santa ...

Donna B has a fun piece on the topic , though it might spark some reflections on simplicity, worry, priorities, and the like. Our record is ...

A friend who used to go to our Covenant church finally has his book out, The Bible In Athanasius of Alexandria. Sure, an' there must be...

Griffey retired today at 40, with 630 lifetime home runs. On my modified-for-steroids list, that puts him at 6th all-time. Had he stayed ...

Primitive version of reality TV

Another entry point in our culture for thinking about time travel is sports. Sports fans think about this all the time, wondering what Ty C...

We have a Recovery Act project going on in our town. When I first saw the logo, I figured it was just my paranoid right-wing mind that thou...

Four years and a few weeks ago we went to Asbury College to watch Ben graduate. While there, we visited Southland Church outside of Lexingt...

Brides and Grooms tinker with the vows a lot these days. Promises from the old formulae get left out and others added in. Some of the new a...

Early man made things and Did Stuff, and in groups: hunted, ate, shaped rocks, hated. It was part of just staying alive. There wasn't ...

Kyle will be going to a wedding reception with us today, and will doubtless moonwalk and wow the crowd. So, in honor of Kyle.

Sure there have been close and hotly contested playoff series in recent NBA history. But it's hard to beat 1981, Boston versus Philadel...

I just like it. Listening to Kyle's stations is sometimes good for me.

I was hoping to see Peter and Gordon singing it, but there doesn't seem to be a tape of that. I had forgotten how much of a crush I...

I was always told to guess "-able" on a debateable spelling, because there are "many more" of them. For some reason, I ...

Upon further review, I did not accurately describe the Compassionate People in my last post. As I did not name them – and shall not – it do...

In the context of a Korea discussion, neo linked to an AISH article, Cruel To Be Kind. It describes simply but eloquently why destroying e...

There have been a few books and articles written recently characterising liberalism as a sort of mental illness. I haven't read any of ...