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July 2017

July 10, 2017

A black James Bond?

From the twitter feed today, "Cast Idris Elba as James Bond Already" from The Daily...

July 10, 2017

And that’s why I don’t read fiction!

(Warning! Spoilers ahead!) I tried. My kids, the high-schooler and the incoming high-schooler, brought home...

July 09, 2017

Three bloggable things about the Renaissance Faire

So I went to the Renaissance Fair (or "Faire") in Bristol, Wisconsin, on Saturday, just...

July 09, 2017

Has Detroit turned a corner?

One meme that Glenn Reynolds and others favored for quite a while consisted of listing...

July 08, 2017

Here’s a demographic oddity for ya’

In the news last week: "The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why...

July 07, 2017

More on Church and State

Again, from the Detroit News: "Michigan judge extends freeze on private school aid." A Michigan...

July 06, 2017

A Subminimum Wage, Revisited

In Seattle, the data is now in, and the net effect of the minimum wage...

July 05, 2017

From the library: Dream Hoarders, by Richard V. Reeves

So here's how I spent the 4th of July: I spent the morning being lazy,...

July 04, 2017

Independence Day and the “other” American Dream

My son will be applying to college next year, which means that stories of college...

July 03, 2017

Are you a dream-hoarder?

That's the premise of a new book, Dream Hoarders, by Richard Reeves, being promoted by...

July 02, 2017

(Not) a war crime

As reported at PJ Media: Defense Secretary James Mattis said the U.S. is going to...

July 01, 2017

“Vouchers” in Illinois?

As locals know, the legislature in Illinois is knee-deep in negotiations to actually pass a...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

The impending death of Charlie Gard

In the news this week, per the Daily Mail's usual wordy headline, "Terminally ill baby...

June 30, 2017

The perils of for-profit “communities”

In the news: "Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook can play a role that churches and Little League...

June 29, 2017

The geography of Pokemon GO

Did you know that we're approaching the first anniversary of the release of Pokemon Go?...

June 29, 2017

Housing allowances for Congress? Maybe not.

In the news on Tuesday (e.g., at The Hill): Just days before he resigns from...

June 27, 2017

What next for church and state?

Monday: "Missouri church wins playground case in Supreme Court," in, well, pretty much everywhere, but...

June 27, 2017

More on Meal Plans

Yeah, this is a Thing I Do: start to think about a topic, even a...

June 26, 2017

Re-adjusting the metaphorical training wheels

Did your children learn to ride their bikes with training wheels? As I recall, my...

June 25, 2017

So we went on our first campus tour yesterday, to Marquette University. To be honest,...

June 22, 2017

Holy Pre-existing Conditions, Batman! It’s Obamacare-lite!

The Senate healthcare proposal is finally out, and here's my first, lunchtime assessment. Republicans have...

June 22, 2017

No good answers in the Castile verdict

In the news last week: A jury found St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez not...

June 20, 2017

Blockbuster, Borders, your local grocer?

So Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and everyone is speculating that Amazon is on its...

June 20, 2017

Defining terrorism

The name of the Finsbury Park attacker has now been released: Darren Osborne, a 47...

June 20, 2017

What the [asterisk] is going on with Illinois’ public universities?

Here's a post that I started writing back in April. You see, back at the...

June 19, 2017

The Finsbury Park attack (placeholder)

Last night, a reportedly-48 year old white man plowed into a crowd near the Finsbury...

June 19, 2017

“Swears” and the social compact

We were at Laserquest the other day, celebrating a birthday. Before you enter the "arena,"...

June 18, 2017

So in 14 days, my husband will be the pop-buyer of the family

Because, that is, he works in Lake County, and, effective July 1st, C(r)ook County will...

June 17, 2017

Who is a “Catholic”? – About Schismatic Churches

An "Independent Catholic" church founded by a breakaway priest.

June 16, 2017

About the age of majority, anyway

So in a prior post I used the issue of the minimum age at marriage...

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