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September 2017

September 21, 2017

Cub Scout update: Bike Rodeo (whew!)

So here's an update on my Adventures as Cub Scout Committee Chair. We are a...

September 20, 2017

Online focus group: how much should you save for retirement?

Yes, I know my blog readers are hardly a random sample. But it would help...

September 20, 2017

Update on Academia: a Medieval Studies feud

From Inside Higher Ed: No one -- besides fellow racists, perhaps -- is pleased that...

September 19, 2017

Up next: “Child Care for All”

"Medicare for all" has been the Progressives' rallying cry for a while now, and Bernie...

September 15, 2017

A Cub Scout Rant

Yes, it's time for the annual Cub Scout gripe. Last night was the official "Blast...

September 14, 2017

Is Cardinal Cupich a Christian?

Is Cupich's definition of "Christian" so expansive that it is synonymous with "good person" in...

September 12, 2017

Where, oh, where, will Amazon go?

So Amazon is inviting bids for a "second headquarters"; the HQ2, as they're calling it....

September 10, 2017

From the library: Boys Adrift, by Leonard Sax

Subtitled The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men....

September 08, 2017

What about Bannon and the Bishops?

The U.S. Catholic bishops are, unsurprisingly, angry at the Trump administration's plan to cancel the...

September 08, 2017

“Enhanced border security” is an unserious DACA compromise

I raised the issue the other day, of what an appropriate compromise would be, that...

September 07, 2017

Sue is being replaced – by a fake!

And maybe that's just fine. This was actually reported a week ago: "Move over, Sue: World's...

September 07, 2017

Why we can’t solve illegal immigration; plus, a reader poll

Why can't we solve the issue of illegal immigration? First, genuine policy disagreements. There are...

September 06, 2017

Why “Dream”-ing isn’t enough

I have just a few minutes before I have to start work, but I want...

September 04, 2017

A DREAM Act do-over?

Let's review DREAM Act history, shall we? (And, by the way, I reject the terminology...

September 03, 2017

Thought experiment: on Kindergarten

I've just started reading a library book, Boys Adrift, by Leonard Sax, which I will...

September 02, 2017

Leggings, dress codes, etc.

In the back-to-school news: "Students question dress codes in District U46: 'It's basically telling us...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Three Hurricane Harvey donation guidelines

I am not an expert, and I am writing this largely as a discussion-starter, but...

August 29, 2017

Pumpkin Rolls, part II

So some time ago -- nearly 4 years ago, in my early blogging days, I...

August 29, 2017

Questions and Answers on Joe Arpaio

Should Arpaio have rotted in jail for his abuses in his office, regardless of whether...

August 28, 2017

In other news, San Domenico School’s tuition is how much?

In the (other) news on Friday, a Catholic school in Marin County, California is discarding...

August 23, 2017

Today’s Comic Relief: The Girl Scouts are mad because. . .

Boy Scouts are sex-segregated? No, silly, of course not. For as much as the Boy...

August 22, 2017

No, Eclipses Don’t Prove Climate Change

In a truly spectacular case of bizarre reasoning, multiple people have posted on twitter variations...

August 20, 2017

Fixing the Ivy League

Does it matter whether one gets into an Ivy League school or not?

August 20, 2017

From the Library: The Happiest Kids in the World

Apparently, the white working class in the U.S. have a lot in common with the...

August 19, 2017

My last (?) post on the Confederate monuments

It occurs to me that the pro- and the anti-monument removal sides are having two...

August 18, 2017

From the library: White Working Class by Joan C. Williams

Subtitled, Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, this little book (125 pages) is directed at upper...

August 17, 2017

Camp Douglas: or, taking “no Confederate monuments” too far

We are assured that, with respect to white supremacists and antifa anarchists, there is right and...

August 16, 2017

Attention Rally-goers: do you want to win?

There's a rally coming up on Saturday the 19th, in Boston, called "Boston Free Speech."...

August 16, 2017

The only winning move is not to play

What does that quote from Wargames have to do with Trump, and his loony press...

August 15, 2017

What about monuments?

On the one hand, we have "monument fever" -- with an endless array of, not...

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