Assistant Village Idiot

The NH Primary is this Tuesday, and the phone is ringing all the time, sometimes for polls, sometimes for Donald or Nikki. I keep reminding ...

 "They seemed like decent chaps. And decent chaps don't check up on decent chaps."

Neuroticism decreases as we age.  Stated the other way, our sense of emotional stability increases as we get older. Fewer things bother us. ...

I have posted my annoyance with the Wellness concept, especially the wasted time at the hospital (your tax dollars at work) several times ov...

 I mentioned recently that I have grudgingly rethought my opinion of the MBTI, that it's no so bad after all, it is just misused in the...

I am wondering if a few key items are the most important in functionality for those with autism. My current nominations are proportionality ...

My mother loved Sinatra.  She was the right age for that, born in 1930. I learned the song from this album, and sang it at the choir banquet...

 It was an era when sitcoms just kept getting weirder. "My Favorite Martian," "Mr Ed,*" "The Munsters." Okay, ...

 It sounds like a dreamy song from a musical, doesn't it?

  Reposted from June 2006 The Assistant Village Idiot seeks wisdom on current affairs from time-to-time by consulting with Eb Jenkins, a sem...

Completely Unrelated Points based on the same title. My podcast tells me that Caribbean and Central American Chinese foods are derivative an...

I have grown concerned during my NDT* about friends giving off signals of being isolated. This came up a few times in the Autism Spectrum se...

Rob Henderson: It would be funny to hear someone say, “You know, humor tests only measure how good you are at taking humor tests.”  In creat...

Among the many calls we are receiving now, the little phone screen on the landline says DYNATA.  We had previously established that this is ...

I have run across a few of these in my reading, but most are things I think I might be seeing in my circle and am curious if any of you have...

Reposted from June 2006. The site is still up. Scanning the front page, he is talking about the Republicans having a problem of a fascistic...

Another one of those things that just pops into my head for no reason.   

I have a long love-hate relationship with cursive. It was certainly hatred early on, with old-style elementary school teachers insisting tha...

No, it's not the full anniversary. That won't be until 8/14/26.  But fifty years ago tonight, Tracy and I took a walk late in the ev...

I loved the GF pasta at Evviva Trattoria in Westford and so asked, as I do, that if they didn't make their own from scratch, what was t...