Assistant Village Idiot

Notice that Ten-Four blog has leaped off the bottom of the sidebar list with his first post in five months, Why I'm Against The Red Sox ...

(Not Quite Top Shelf) If you really could do Superman or Batman types of things, wouldn’t you be obligated to fix things without rest?...

My apologies.   The next few posts shade into one another, and even repeat.   I have been unable to tighten them up into bold, pithy sta...

Grand Canyon for Thanksgiving has much of its framework in place.   We will be sharing space with llamas, and frighteningly for us, the ...

Conservatives and evangelicals sometimes quietly congratulate themselves that they are reproducing themselves while liberals and secular peo...

We have about a half-dozen marinades for meat that we use commonly, plus I like to experiment from time-to-time.  But really, Italian dressi...

This article in Psychiatry Weekly discusses the research on whether the social selection or the social causation theory best explains why m...

Reading Lewis's essays on art, atmosphere, and Otherness in works of fiction, John W. Campbell's story "Who Goes There?" (...

Because some people at work are aware of my background and interests, I am sometimes asked about related subjects... Hahahaha!  That is a ...

I did a series - or more exactly, brought out a discussion - about free will last year, May We Believe Our Thoughts ?  There's 28 entrie...

James has three good links over at his site, one discussing what books are most like Tolkien, a second about the problems with criminal law...

I wonder if there is a generational  aspect to suspecting whether an athlete is using PED's.  The athletes I watched growing up had a ce...

A wise character in a Ray Bradbury story "And The Rock Cried Out" only reads the newspaper after it is a week old.  At that point,...

Folks skeptical of the claims of Christianity, or preceding that, Judaism, complain that it seems unsupportable to them that God would be so...

I was surprised to see a mention of the anti-vaccination crowd in CS Lewis, as far back as the early 40's. The man who "just feel...

I have many things to write about but can't seem to get to them.  Perhaps there are too many and that is the problem.  Also, we are invo...

One of my themes for the year is that most discussion about the Red Sox' problems this year has been irrelevant, focusing on communicati...

(Children of the Heavenly Father) We had this today because it was a Covenant heritage Sunday of some sort. We have had this at a few f...

I saw a news clip of Obama commenting on the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney's running mate.  He made polite comments that Ryan was a d...