Assistant Village Idiot

I could argue with this woman all day, but really, this essay was a lot of fun.  5 "Boring" Classics That Are Actually Unhinged.  ...

When the boys were younger and were acting up I would sometimes deadpan "LOCAL FATHER GOES BERSERK. SLAYS TWO IN BIZARRE DINNER INCIDEN...

I wondered if dogs stick their heads out the window because of the rush of smells on the breeze. They look like they are having a hallucinat...

I went on a run.of watching Marvin Hagler fights a few years ago, and think I saw them all twice. About two years ago I got into Mike Tyson ...

Might be my favorite bluegrass tune.  There's a lot of versions out there, including one by Mannfred Mann, of all things. This is one of...

I am pleased that Heterodox Academy is having a go at this. Conservatives make angry claims, while liberals say it's all bosh, but HxA a...

Looking at sports highlights this afternoon, I noticed that everything is faster. Misieroski for the Milwaukee Brewers; UNC lacrosse in the ...

Scott Alexander takes on what he calls "reddit vexillogy" in his Three Model Organisms For Taste.    If you’re like me, you learne...

I received spam from a new place, assuring me that there were CIA documents that Hitler had survived and lived another ten years.  The Natio...

  This one was ubiquitous and overdone in the 80s and 90s, but I think less so now.

 Madeline Kahn shows off her versatility  I'm just getting carried away now. I need to rein this in.

 I don't think I had ever heard it. I have an identical plaid shirt to that guy in the center.  

I will be in the State o' Maine,  Bah Hahbah and Acadier Tuesday to Thursday.   I wanted to leave you with a little something to tide yo...

Because we are doing the last of emptying the house that my father's second wife lived in since 1946, the subject of keeping unnecessary...

  These weren't big in my day.  Maybe I would have liked being part of an A Cappella group. 

There is a lot of deploring of the amount of time the Youth of America is spending in front of screens, and how that has taken over older pe...

When I was in college and reading Lord of the Rings, I thought invisibility would be the best superpower to have. I also thought that Time S...

  Italian boys from near Belmont Avenue in the Bronx.  Ahead of their time.

There is a FB argument between two Christians who I find rather tiring. One is saying "Tolerance is not a Christian virtue."  The ...

 Two Misinterpreted Insights in the History of Heredity.  Why did it take humans so long to discover what we now consider obvious, that thin...