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August 2023

August 26, 2023

News from the world of English Language Learning

In Illinois, and Chicago in particular, along with various other declared "sanctuary states," there have...

August 26, 2023

What happens to the rest of us, when kids fail to learn?

Here's a collection of recent reports on students and young adults in schools and the...

July 2023

July 17, 2023

What’s A Pro-Life Illinoisan To do?

The Illinois Republican Party is struggling -- maybe not in the same way as in...

July 08, 2023

Trans Kids and Data Analysis: Understanding the “Gender Affirming Care is Lifesaving” Claim

Yes, I'm going there: it's time to address the "transkid" issue -- hopefully with an...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

The Violinist vs. the Castaway, and an attempt at a new abortion metaphor

Who recalls the metaphor of the violinist on life support? This metaphor was created by...

December 27, 2022

The end of “boys who wear dresses”?

What does it mean to be "gender-creative"? To be "gender expansive"? To be "gender non-conforming"?...

September 2022

September 21, 2022

RIP, volunteerism

In 2018, I took over the job of "after-mass hospitality coordinator" from the prior volunteers,...

August 2022

August 21, 2022

“Jane the Actuary,” the actuary – an update on retirement writing and future paths

Regular readers of my page on retirement issues at Forbes will have noticed by now...

July 2022

July 31, 2022

New Job! A few personal updates

Longtime readers will know my story thus far: after blogging as a hobby for a...

June 2022

June 28, 2022

On the end of Roe, and why I’m not as celebratory as I would like to be

I keep revisiting this draft, which I started a long time ago, when the Supreme...

May 2022

May 17, 2022

Yes, you should object to saying “they”

So . . . turns out it's been a while since I've published a blog...

February 2022

February 07, 2022

1001 shifting justifications for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s mask policy

To start, a disclosure: a little under two years ago, I was most definitely an...

January 2022

January 31, 2022

On Maus, Book-Banning, and Common Sense

What is the most appropriate book for middle schoolers to read to learn about the...

January 04, 2022

Santorini (a vacation sewing project)

As regular readers may know, I am in the middle of a master's program in...

January 04, 2022

On her feast day: Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Latin Mass fuss

It's Elizabeth Ann Seton's feast day today. You know her -- first American-born saint, founder...

January 01, 2022

Three Cardinal Cupich Updates That Make The Story Look Even Worse

Earlier this week, Cardinal Cupich announced that henceforth the Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

Is the cruelty the point? Cardinal Cupich’s mean-spirited anti-Latin Mass regulations

Yes, this irritates me enough to prod me to write after a long break. Well,...

August 2021

August 14, 2021

It’s 1975 again. Was it avoidable?

Hey, everyone -- I wrote the following on that first weekend when the collapse of...

August 11, 2021

Doing the COVID math

So I've been doing some COVID math -- the sort that isn't really good enough...

June 2021

June 25, 2021

Now on Twitter: Second-Guessing Reconstruction

Let's start with a one-paragraph review of the Reconstruction Era, shall we? In the period...

June 21, 2021

What does Juneteenth mean?

Yeah, this is another one of my little blog posts in which I write based...

April 2021

April 10, 2021

Remembering my father

I don't write as much at this blog as I used to, with other things...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Biden’s immigration bill will not “fix” illegal immigration

Remember the George Bush immigration reform proposal in 2006, when he claimed that he would...

February 22, 2021

Why the Equality Act is actually much worse than the Bostock Court ruling

Remember back last summer when the Supreme Court determined that, by parsing the Civil Rights...

February 01, 2021

The Bee predicts the post-Trump GOP future

On January 6, the Babylon Bee posted an article with the headline: "Absolute Legend:...

January 2021

January 20, 2021

In which we learn that Biden isn’t a moderate after all

Let's start with immigration. Remember the "path to citizenship" and "earned legalization" promises? -- that...

January 06, 2021

A GRE postmortem

No, not an election postmortem -- I don't believe there is appropriate data that could...

December 2020

December 14, 2020

Let’s talk about ‘Dr.’ Biden

So there was a dust-up over the weekend about a Wall Street Journal opinion piece...

November 2020

November 21, 2020

Actually, workers on Food Stamps is a good thing

In the news yesterday, the Government Accounting Office released its report on the number and...

November 16, 2020

Let’s talk about inflation

So if I were a credentialed economist, or even had any specialized education in the...

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