Assistant Village Idiot

Yeah, I know Don Henley is Ann Coulter's  "shut up and sing" guy with his politics, but these are still great lyrics, and good...

Considering while riding in the car the teenagers and damned-kids-today-can't-even-shoe-a-horse attitude we seem to always take in the w...

  Sometimes I just post what comes into my head as I am driving.

The Studies Show - Stuart Ritchie in the sidebar - just discussed the mental health crisis and the rise of social media. I signed on big for...

Cancel Culture Dominates Children's Literature from the WSJ My wife and DIL are both children's librarians, and they far more often...

The concept of food-miles and the idea that eating locally is better for the environment is subjected to actual research?  Who would have th...

Brought Forward From August 2006, unedited.  I had nothing worth bringing forward from July 2006, which is rather embarrassing.  ***********...

 Never Say You Have Seen It All . I applied this specifically to mental health, but I have to suspect that Christians shouldn't show tha...

Last night's Grammy Award winner in the Traditional R&B category.  This is the contemporary worship band at First Methodist Houston,...

When my son did math team as a sophomore in HS, someone came up with the idea of getting t-shirts that said "The Answer Is Seven" ...

Aporia magazine likes to link to what they call "classic" articles from social psychology, presumably because they believe those i...

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you ...

 The whole idea of a lutefisk hotline just slays me.

Reposted from 2006.  If anything, I look on this with more astonishment now than I did then.  McLean is a good hospital, and my experience w...

Diffuse Power   Is it more comfortable to believe that there are just a few forces, or even a few individuals, that are controlling it all, ...