Assistant Village Idiot

 Son #5 is moving and looking for a new laundromat, because the one in Southie will be too far away. It's a continuing problem. By the w...

It's the Rules and the Real Rules again, isn't it? I haven't written much on the topic, because it automatically brings in discu...

Trump is holding fewer campaign events than even Biden, who was the previous record-holder in modern times for avoiding them, holding even ...

David Goldman writes for the Asia Times , originally under the pseudonym Spengler (after Oswald Spengler, who wrote about the decline of th...

Progressives object to mild sexual material on display in workplaces as a form of harassment. But it's not only okay but demanded on the...

 

I doubt that it is actually better in other societies, neither historical nor primitive; not Eastern or African or Native. When I point out ...

I figure I can't be the first person bringing some of these connections, but the last one, about the souls at sea, I am not finding anyw...

I recall reading years ago some left-wing educational writer complaining because he believed our entire public education system was original...

Son #3 is discouraged by the weather in Nome today, especially as he just injured himself in indoor soccer.

  This would be Cambridge, England, not Massachusetts

When we make fun of an accent, or even just want to signal it, we choose the strongest version, and for the New England Coastal accent the u...

We went to visit the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association in Oak Bluffs, a charming collection of tightly-packed, brightly colore...

James Thomson, a psychologist who has shown up and commented on HBD sites for years, now has a substack Psychological Comments . Rob Henders...

We went to an Irish restaurant on the Cape, Keltic Kitchen (with Keltic Kottage gift shop adjoining), which was fun. It was one of those pla...

LeBron James's son is going to USC for a year, after which he will be drafted into the NBA. Current estimates are that he will be drafte...

There was some discussion of The Wrath of Becky over at Althouse.  Ann covers a wide variety of topics and things that I might miss, especi...

We had this at the church we visited in Brewster.  I sang it years ago with men's chorus and have loved it.  Very fun to sing, including...

The was a fashion twenty years ago in psychology - I associate it strongly with the UNH nursing instructors and the Antioch College psych de...

 Hard to find, I may have to order a carton. Sweeter and lighter than the similar Deep River product.