Assistant Village Idiot

In echo of Bethany's post about health care costs, we have Thankful  by Mark Stoler over at Things Have Changed.  He is thankful for Big...

I read the book.  My son told me I would love the movie but I've never seen it. There're a lot of movies I've never seen which I...

There has been a run here on bumpahstickahs and such saying "NAHAMSHA." It's cute, but not quite right.  The first vowel is a ...

 

 Christ I, or The Advent Lyrics  are part of the Exeter Book and date from the late 900s AD.  Lyrics,  in this case, is closer to the lite...

For years I have put a 12 oz container of dry gas in everyone's stocking.  It's just a Dad sort of thing to remind people of. I used...

One will occasionally run across the challenge from liberals - my brother, for example - to conservatives opposing DEI to spell it out, sayi...

The Julbord is a specialised version of a Smorgasbord. Years ago I toyed with the idea of doing an authentic Julbord, as I am partly of Swed...

I don't usually link to Facebook articles, but Dmitry Matousov is an investment advisor by day and only puts his long-form essays up on ...

 Riots in Sweden  Increasingly applicable Absolute Truth . I have said this several times I discuss the book Bloodlands   Deliver Us: Concer...

 We now return to our regularly scheduled programming

 As usual, whatever your favorite soap box is, Bethany's new post over at Graph Paper Diaries will give you something.  Increasing Hea...

26 degrees this morning, but sunny and calm and felt like spring. A day like this in October would have me wondering whether I would make it...

 For those interested in the free will debate, Eric Rundquist at Book Battles  compares "the two most recent, comprehensive and, crucia...

Mike Males, a senior researcher at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice has a nice substack I just discovered.  He is devoted to expo...

The original idea behind wokeness - what many true believers still pretend is all the meaning there is - is that we should be awake to the e...

Princeton University announced a study and subsequent paper in Nature Genetics about four distinct autism subtypes .  I missed it at the ti...

 

In the artwork, the Star of Bethlehem is pictured as some big can't-miss-it item. But if it was a dramatic star (planet/comet) then ever...

Earl at Wind Off The Hill sent along this poem by Dorothy Parker  with the comment "she wasn't always wittily bitter"