Assistant Village Idiot

It's not summer. It's not even spring, especially in NH, where spring is delayed about a month. But the weather has gone above fif...

Update: Correction in the comments.  I was tempted to take this down but am keeping it up for my own admonishment. There have been decades o...

 JD Vance would be an interesting candidate . I read his book, Hillbilly Elegy and liked it quite a bit.  He grew up that family brand of A...

He is near the top as short sprinter, long sprinter, and long jumper, and so picks up points for Georgia in both individual events and relay...

I heard something that annoyed me about a local church today, and my thoughts started going to bad places.  I knew their founders from my Je...

 

When I was still working at the hospital, four months and a lifetime ago I had a lunchtime conversation with a lesbian friend of mine expres...

Under the thread Granite Dad linked to about Harry and Meghan is this thread from Titania McGrath sharing some of the interactions she had ...

When modern Christians study the Old Testament, they automatically zip in the equivalence of ourselves as individuals drawing lessons from w...

My commenters have convinced me that I was wrong earlier. A young(er) progressive friend challenged the idea that so many things are being ...

I just wrote about him a few days ago, and now he has died .

We were a big enough highschool (2,000) to have local cover bands for our dances, rather than relying on someone to play records. This was a...

WRT secondary sources (previous post), I don't want you to think I have no standards. I try not to make authors from the past say things...

Do you remember when ED Hirsch came out with the book Cultural Literacy in the late 80's? There was a quiz, and other quizzes developed...

It is perhaps too easy to draw the lesson from this that sentimentalists are destined to be ruled by Machiavellians who know how to exploit...

The idea seemed radical and intriguing to me when I first read it at HBDChick years ago, that the Catholic Church's sanctions against co...

"It wouldn't be a Victorian novel if it didn't have a controversial will in it, would it?" John J. Miller, "The Great...

I saw a reference to Meghan Markle as "The Princess of Woke."  I wouldn't focus on that aspect of her. My reading is that she ...

Althouse saw the Guardian article about Eddie Izzard now wanting his pronouns to be "she" and "her," making the full s...

Jonathan Winters used to do a routine about the old movies of primitive tribes drumming in the background and one of the characters shouting...