Assistant Village Idiot

Continues to do well for the San Francisco Giants. Not setting the world on fire, but projecting his stats over a full season, quite respec...

An interesting bit of geoscience about those Pacific atolls that are in danger of being submerged by rising sea levels.  I will have to...

Friends who have been prog-rock fans for decades had praise for Neal Morse, formerly of Spock's Beard, who became a Christian in 2002 an...

I remember the event, but I don’t think it had much impact on me, then or now.   I was a camp counselor, and we had the campers watch it...

On this date in 1941, Joe Dimaggio hit in his 56th consecutive game , a record that has never been approached, never mind broken. And duri...

Speaking of lyrics... I was trying to find "Little Boy Blue" by Armerding, but Youtube only has a shortened version.

Why Would They Lie? There was a large public lying with statistics motoring around in NH in 2007. I dimly recall it was one of my most-visi...

Tacitus, writing about how his father-in-law Agricola succeeded in further subduing the conquered Britons by appealing to their vanity and s...

Police Failed in Charlottesville. "Americans were shocked by the naked political violence we saw this weekend in Charlottesville, Va. ...

I wonder how much the improvements in the technology of the underground influenced Freud's idea of the unconscious. There had always bee...

"Men tend not to want to meet unless there is an objective, but won't come because there's an agenda." A wise friend sen...

I have listened to Part I and half of Part II of the Political Beats podcast about the Beach Boys, on the recommendation of my eldest son. T...

Listen Up.  I won't be linking to HuffPo very often.  A fascinating article about the increase in vocations after fifty years of decline...

Augustine of Hippo (354-430) writing in De Generi ad litteram libri duodecim (The Literal Meaning of Genesis) Usually, even a non-Christi...

There are thousands of worthy causes.  Why do we choose the ones we do?  I usually bring that forward in discussion of Palestinian rights - ...

Interesting look at the treatment of Boris Johnson by the British press by longtime conservative writer John O'Sullivan . I had thought...

Other Christians I can now reveal that the small group was studying a book by Blackaby.  Not a fan. December 2016 1950s Creed   We looked...

Every year sportswriter Matthew Berry opens his season discussing fantasy football with some variation of this essay , showing you can ...

From James Lileks today . "WHERE - IS - MY - PRIVILEGE? Was I supposed to reapply annually?" There are more serious observations...

Zero Correlation Between State Homicide Rate and State Gun Laws Eugene Volokh being reasonable again. This is one of the links I share in o...