Assistant Village Idiot

I find all the embedded links fascinating – that’s why they’re there – but understand that not everyone will.   I will notify you when t...

The overuse of the psychological term “triggered” is yet one more example of a legitimate term being ruined by people who are trying to ...

I think there is bad reasoning on both sides. Please mentally add these thoughts to subsequent discussions. Colleges make a lot of money o...

I got much of my description wrong, but enough to hit key buttons for a reader.  I recommend you read the story first. There's a lot in...

The conference in Warsaw is apparently interesting and promising.  The Washington Institute gives a good summary. Second, the Europeans w...

What was the sci-fi story, 1950s-70s, in which people live beneath the surface of the earth in pods or rooms, communicating electronically a...

I recognised it on sight. Gibson's Bookstore in Concord is as liberal-friendly a territory as you will find in New Hampshire.  You may ...

"If history is just current events plus time, then biased and unfair history is bad journalism plus time."  National Review has ...

I have finally decided I am eligible to wear CS Lewis glasses.  I am not as smart, and nowhere near as learned, but I am older than he, and ...

This British-Irish Dialect Quiz correctly identified that I am not from Great Britain.  I wondered if it might show a particular region of ...

On the very cold Saturday morning we were passing out food, the wind was up and the workers were miserable.  People just hunkered down, vowi...

A: Trump supporters are stupid, uneducated, racist, and probably violent. B: Your accusation is an unsupported generalisation, prejudicial,...

Grim linked to this interesting article about the development of institutional over personal violence . I think it is better to keep the dis...

Apropos of a conversation about throwing out old photos from high school and college, I mentioned to my wife a measure of how geography-obse...

It was Mickey Newbury who first put together the arrangement in 1970 and recorded in 1971.  He said he did it for his own healing one night,...

Remember when Jerry Falwell thought he discerned gay propaganda in the Teletubbies, and everyone thought he was crazy?  The counter kept get...