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May 2017

May 01, 2017

Hold the mocking on the Civil War . . . Trump isn’t as wrong as you think he is

In the news today, President Trump said that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Let’s pay to pee!

Yes, really. According to Steven Chapman's column in today's Tribune, Alderman David Moore has sponsored...

April 29, 2017

Girl Boy Scouts, again

NPR has decided that the Sydney Ireland story needs revisiting/re-promoting, so they've written another article...

April 28, 2017

The Handmaid’s cautionary tale . . .

is, apparently, that we are at risk of becoming a slightly weird version of fundamentalist...

April 26, 2017

Did Rauner flip-flop on Medicaid abortions?

On the Democrats' party platform this summer: the elimination of the Hyde Amendment and...

April 25, 2017

The power of LGBT

The other day, in the e-mailed news, my employer boasted of being named a "Best...

April 25, 2017

From the Library: The Campus Rape Frenzy, by KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr.

Imagine that you could, by ritually sacrificing a few people selected at random, ensure the...

April 20, 2017

Is the conventional wisdom on bilingualism wrong?

So says an article in The American Conservative, as linked to by the National Review,...

April 20, 2017

Gender-theorying school uniforms?

The above picture is from our trip to London last summer, where it seemed like,...

April 19, 2017

Income inequality, juice edition

How much would you pay for a glass of juice, to be consumed in your...

April 19, 2017

Census update: racial (bean-)counting

From the National Review Corner, citing the Heritage Foundation, on proposed changes to the census...

April 19, 2017

Dysfunctional Japan, again: school bullying

Some time ago, I wrote about the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori, teen boys and young men...

April 18, 2017

Easter update from the Mitten

Here's just a bit of a catch-up; as you might have guessed from my lack...

April 13, 2017

So, the dairy industry has a point, actually

Take a look in your freezer. Is there ice cream in there? Or is it...

April 12, 2017

History buffs: why didn’t Hitler use poison gas on the battlefield?

That's a post title that I wrote after Sean Spicer said, "even Hitler didn't use...

April 11, 2017

Notre Dame offers 65 merit scholarships

Which is 65 more than I thought they did. Sure, this is just a bit...

April 11, 2017

The Bible Answer Man!

Back years ago, when I drove into the office every day, before I had kids,...

April 10, 2017

(Not) flying the friendly skies

A United flight is overbooked. For some unidentified reason, the crew has allowed all the...

April 08, 2017

Who are the lost sheep?

Because, you know, Jesus compared himself to a shepherd, leaving the 99 to search for...

April 07, 2017

Cupich says we should all just pack up

that is, if Chicago-area churches aren't actively involved in anti-poverty programs in the city. (Per...

April 07, 2017

“Everyone belongs to everyone else” and the American hook-up

The "hook-up," as practiced on American college campuses, has changed. That's what Lisa Wade reports...

April 06, 2017

is this a dirty little secret about universities and community colleges?

Something that I've learned in trying to find out more about merit scholarship opportunities: they're...

April 06, 2017

Holocaust, Memory, and Memoir

I just finished a Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress, by Sara Tuvel Bernstein with Louise Loots...

April 05, 2017

Mom’s list of 10 things to consider in college selection

As in, I'm Mom, and this is the list I started as a way of...

April 05, 2017

Puparazzo, part 2

So, two years and some months ago, I posted some of my then-2nd grade son's...

April 04, 2017

Could Staff Model HMOs rise from the dead?

I've thought, off and on, about the Staff Model HMO concept -- that is, the...

April 03, 2017

My latest family history (non-)discoveries

Not long ago, I wrote about my discovery that the answer to all our family...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

ERISA-exempt church plans and the “little guy”

How should the Supreme Court make its decisions? Should they focus on helping the "little...

March 28, 2017

About the “fearless girl”

She's standing up to something. What? She's standing firm against a bull, about to charge...

March 27, 2017

Tell me about your health insurance

Just curious - we all form our opinions only partly by what we read in...

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