Assistant Village Idiot

One more rant, just a sidebar.   Yes, we all know that government workers don’t do much work.   We waste everything, really, and just go...

I’ve worked for years in emergency psychiatric care.   People come to me because they have been dangerous due to mental illness.   That ...

The statewide news is full of stories about the mental health system.   Newspapers being what they are, they try to find an individual s...

We did not allow our boys to play with guns while growing up.  I wouldn't do that now, but it made sense at the time.  Little problem fo...

I was in a production of this in college, and was always a bit ashamed of it.  It is a musical based on Wilde's The Importance Of Being ...

Following through on the many references in the Froude post reminded me of an introduction by CS Lewis that I used as a handout when I taugh...

One of the links over at hbd* chick is to a blog by one Foseti explaining How to really read in 2013 .  Interesting enough in itself, but wh...

hbd* chick links to a jstor article on spatial navigation that fits well with my previous series on Wayfinding .  It suggests that the sex ...

Posts coming, but I am too unenergetic to think with focus.  Plenty of reading suddenly came up over the horizon as well. Kyle is safely b...

I posted a few years ago (hmm, six years ago , in fact) on the pronunciation of often .  I had some of the history wrong.  I had thought add...

Creating jobs is easy.   All you have to do is look for the synonyms of both words in the phrase.   Make. Work.   ( Macht.   Arbeiten .)...