Assistant Village Idiot

Research is neither validated nor invalidated by who pays for it. Any sane person would have heightened suspicion if they learned that a p...

Via Maggie's. George Leef comment s on In The Basement Of The Ivory Tower. I don't know the book, so I'm not linking or recomm...

Update: Photos are up We attended the Manchester celebration of the new Republic of South Sudan. (No, that's not anywhere in New Engla...

It used to be common for some more intense Christian groups to insist that if Christian believers would just "get back to God," in...

Setting the stage... I was sent a Cynthia Boaz HuffPo column. You can see that her focus is peace and change, nonviolent studies, that sort...

Bruce Kesler over at Maggie's has a discussion of a blogwar on the right between Pam Geller and Gates of Vienna. I, as usual, saw a ...

My notes contain the remaining scattered bits about the preparation and execution of the trip. Yet when I looked them over, I discovered a ...

At the fireworks last night - rather disappointing, BTW (spoiled, I guess) - we briefly discussed Evangelical Covenant principles of agreeme...

In a post about educational change and teacher's unions, Carl over at NOfP includes a series of graphs about political contributions , ...

Dave Kopel over at Volokh was discussing which periodicals to read , and makes the following observation about news media: For example, th...

Okay, now that I'm really tired of the discussions on other sites (not listed) with the men's rights people, many of whom are unable...

This was one of the earliest topics I picked up on this blog . As it is not an entirely common view in this era - or in any era since the i...

It doesn't matter what the quality of the books on the list are. If you create a list of "essential" YA books and call them ...

Paul Zrimsek, commenting over at Ann Althouse: Every NYT columnist is formed in the crucible of the memory of that first sneer. (Related to...

The wonderful Quackwatch site, which keeps track of aggressively-marketed medical frauds, has reprinted Worthington Hooker's book on me...

A friend with celiac disease mentioned that some restaurants get it WRT gluten, and others don't. The latter say they have gluten-free ...

My original intent was to travel the route, looking for elements that would have been present in the 1930’s or the 1950’s, when my mother wo...

So...when you take church youth group to camp, and want to run over the rules, you can pass out printed sheets. Or you can have an earnest ...

I emailed Glenn Reynolds about his second Thomas Ball post, because I know something of the agency and court involved. He used it as an upd...