Assistant Village Idiot

It turns out it is more controversial than I thought.  A year ago I might have taken the CDC's numbers at face value, but their reputat...

Total C19 deaths for NH are 37, not 374.  We did not have 340 new deaths today.  I mention this to remind people to be cautious. It's ju...

Sometimes you watch an early fight of his, and it's amazing that his opponent got in any punches at all. Archie Moore was no bum, h...

Update:  I have wondered about long-term effects, and even mentioned them occasionally, but I am also guilty of overlooking the other diffic...

Perhaps this belongs in the You Ungrateful Bastards category. When I am searching for something on my own blog, it uncovers other things I w...

Once the old house is sold, I won't have a driveway near the section of "my woods" that I usually start in, so I elected to hi...

There is a weakness in English that we do not have a second person plural that differentiates well, and so the regional dialects have invent...

The 1619 Project is even less than half true, but "half-truth" is a concept we recognise that captures the connotation I am lookin...

After being bitten by a snake and taking no harm, Paul did not then decide to change his ministry into looking for snakes to bite him so he...

There is still noise about Hillary Clinton somehow, magically, bursting through and becoming the nominee.  At this point Biden would have to...

All of us get into sloppy habits of mixing together clumps of people who are actually different.  Though I don't think I have written it...

I apologise for the inelegance, but it is necessary to the story. I am making many trips to the dump these days, in the context of clearin...

One of the interesting bits about moving is that random associations of people with places at the old house will now disappear.  There is a ...

Because our primary experience of God is to imagine Him - and that is a good thing, exercising our deepest humanity in the service of unders...

I like John Hindraker and Powerline very much.  But you know how I feel about people wrapping themselves in the mantle of truth, rationality...

From the Daily News 1905 "Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Libe...

It shouldn't need saying, but just to get everyone to take a breath here.  Just because experts are sometimes wrong, and in recent cases...

In my History of English podcast, we covered the Anglo-Saxon invasion quite a few episodes ago. The pattern was that when the Britons, Celts...

A review of Monika Zgustova's book over at The American Interest. Linked by Powerline blog.