Assistant Village Idiot

I keep forgetting.

CS Lewis advised that we should read three old books for every new one in his introduction to Athanasius' On The Incarnation. Different...

This isn't part of my Ten Commandments series (not yet), but it is related. BTW, Boxty recommended Prager University's series on the...

Sent by a regular reader I also like the part where right after is says "Kiss Proof, Smudge Proof"  it says "Not Tested ...

It's quickly become a Toxoplasma of Rage issue, hasn't it?  If you aren't for the protests, you're a racist who doesn...

That is how the first commandment is expressed in the Jewish tradition.  Just that. The part about other gods is put into commandment #2, al...

I heard this in the 1970's, supposedly about Brother Lawrence . That is plausible, yet I suspect this did not actually happen. Consider ...

1. I get irritated when presidents get themselves involved in things that are none of their business.  I didn't like it when Obama kept ...

I don't often link to Stuart Schneiderman's blog Had Enough Therapy? Bird Dog has linked to him a couple of times recently, so I fi...

Maggie's Farm, Powerline, and City Journal have all had articles deploring the practice in many synagogues of using Rosh Hashanah to con...

Update below. I am in a FB group "The Best of 'The Far Side.'" I always loved the comic but didn't have all the book...

I am not going to try and sell you the idea that everything Bush and the Republicans did was noble and aboveboard while Gore and the Democra...

There is sudden irritation, perhaps even outrage at Google because the search term "American Inventors*" shows mostly black invent...

I discussed the various attributes that were valued by earlier cultures, and which are valued now, in The Gold Coin of Worth . It later occu...

As children, we have heroes.  As young adults, we learn they have flaws. They all have flaws. Sometimes we then reject them, sometimes we ke...

I went down a Wikipedia rabbit-trail - rather literally, come to think of it - about Watership Down. Amidst all the accolades reported, ther...

(Notes at the end.) Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. ...

I don't listen to the people who believe they think for themselves much at all.  They usually are only choosing one of the major cultu...

Legal Insurrection reminds us of the 2013 racial hoaxes at Oberlin College, and notes that they may be having enrollment problems in 2017 -...

A journalist recently wrote that journalists are people who have to know things first, and this is why they are so easy to manipulate. They...