Assistant Village Idiot

Looks like fun. Adding in the part about the recycled material in the support, and the woman's solemn intonations about the past and the...

So I'm three months in to this quitting smoking, and it's not so bad. I have quit for six months at a time twice and once for two y...

This time I would like to connect you to a conversation. Steve Sailer had two posts related to his review of Francis Fukuyama's new T...

The National Rifle Association has sent me a membership card - not valid unless dues are paid, but still. Presumably, they have my name fro...

Steve Sailer has an interesting article about solving a murder via social networking . The victim was Armenian-American, the murderer was tr...

Researching some other info - trying to find out whether Route 28 used to go on the upper, Pembroke side of the Suncook River or the lower, ...

Who knew that my placid and traditional daughter-in-law was on the cutting edge of the art world? You go, girl.

In a comment likely to offend just about everyone, I dislike Sarah Palin for just about the same reasons I dislike Barack Obama. She intent...

Those crazy little pagan house deities! Always looking for food. We've made both angels and demons cute, so that they are now indisting...

I have a new theory. Sports fans, especially talking heads, refer to a team being able to finish, to put another team away. Similarly, the...

Listening to my semi-modern Norwegian Christmas music today on a whim, and heard an odd track come up. (Yeah, I know, what are the odds, r...

Kyle is playing Babe Ruth League this year, leading to me discussing youth baseball at work. One woman complained bitterly about her son...

One of my paranoid patients uncovered the site Are You Targeted in his searching the internet for proof that he is being harassed by Hollyw...

Tomte are cute, now. They have their own catalog, and in the yearly Luciadag festivals, are played by pre-K's in Swedish costume. In ...

I am probably oversensitive about integrating patriotism in with worship on Memorial Day (or Fourth of July, I suppose). Honoring the milit...

My uncle, mentioned many times here, sends this article about how we use our reasoning to justify our opinions, not arrive at them . It...

I don't think this is for real, but as the comment section at the site says ABBA Bubble Bath is fun to say. BTW, looking for new and...

From Wired, via Instapundit, the creation of false memories in advertising . I touched on advertising before, noting that despite the Chick...

My Dad was a great teller of jokes and stories, the perennial master-of-ceremonies and raconteur. He had been an excellent actor, both com...

We tend to regard the self that one shows under provocation, or with a few drinks under the belt, as the "real you" coming out. Y...