Assistant Village Idiot

We are way overdue for a new outrage. It must be a big vacation week for journos and PR firms in DC.

During prayer time at church I reflected on how amazingly smooth, prosperous, and healthy our world is compared to very few years ago. Yet w...

Ah, but we had more fun in those days! Ah were but a lass then, yet still ah remember the sailors and the gypsies dancin' in the street ...

Theodore Dalrymple, generally excellent, has a logical takedown of the judge's reasoning in the sentencing of Lavinia Woodward. I assum...

This is about what I remember, except the boys are a little more coordinated here than at Christus Victor youth group.  It was not as dram...

If you like that, there's Buffalo Bills Joke.

The Babylon Bee has nice parody of the change of meaning of the word "violence." They are more accurate than they know. Dictionar...

Texan99 offered up an Aeon link about who mistrusts science and why . Then Sponge-Headed Scienceman also sent me two Aeon articles today:  O...

Lord, I am grateful that people have forgotten most of the stupid things I have done, and perhaps even most of the evil ones.  May I bring b...

The democracy has a right to answer questions, but it has no right to ask them. It is still the political aristocracy that asks the questio...

Apparently I'm not the only stats-lover questioning whether statistics have ruined baseball .

Okay, the set of ideas Jennifer Walton-Fissette is selling are a bit crazy, if the report over at PJ Media is correct. (Not a guarantee.  T...

For those following at home, Bethany has recently written about birthrate as well, with different focus.  It makes the comments sections a ...

For 55 years I have been saying "no, statistics are what is most interesting about baseball," and for the last 30+ years I would s...

There are a dozen explanations out there why the American birthrate is below replacement, and why middle-class and above white females in pa...

I had heard about the surprise mobilization of many thousands of Swedish Home Guard and reservists in June for an exercise responding to a h...

I haven't seen it.  I'm not likely to.  The commentary from conservative websites is that it is hopelessly slanted, especially in th...

Remember Cargo Cults ?  You learned about them in freshman anthropology, or maybe just heard someone talking about them.  The idea was that ...

I find it fascinating that so many young people - and not-so-young-people - believe that NFL players have an inherent right to kneel during ...

Just to review, because some Trump supporters in the comments sections at a few sites are losing this thought again.  Donald Trump did not f...