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June 2016

June 18, 2016

London, Part 1

We're there! And here's a bit of a travel journal for both family/friends and blog...

June 15, 2016

Love is love is love is . . . hate?

The two emerging narratives coming across my facebook and twitter feeds could not be more...

June 13, 2016

“10 and change”: Retirement

The first installment in the Jane the Actuary "10 and change" project: Let's talk about...

June 13, 2016

The Orlando attack and the starfish story

So here's the deal: I spent all of Saturday travelling; Sunday noontime (UK time) we...

June 10, 2016

The Jane the Actuary “10 and change” challenge

Yeah, I told you about the "100 and change" project sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation....

June 09, 2016

Seven “Brock Turner” observations

In case you've been living under a rock, a 20-year old man was sentenced to...

June 07, 2016

Sanders supporters: you were robbed (sort of)

You know, it's clear that the press is not the objective reporters of fact we...

June 07, 2016

Should “Hispanic” be a race?

Or, more precisely, should the US Census Bureau's racial categories include as a "race" the...

June 06, 2016

Should Islam abandon the Hajj?

Yeah, I know, not really any of my business whether Muslims believe that their religion...

June 05, 2016

The “True Minimum Wage” = the Shadow Economy wage

So I checked my twitter feed this morning and saw a link to an article...

June 04, 2016

How to earn $100 million

Oh, man. I am so going to do this. All I need to do is...

June 03, 2016

A helpful tool: the Longevity Illustrator

From the Society of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries: the Longevity Illustrator. It's...

June 03, 2016

The Day Care/Preschool Elixer

It's baa-aack -- the dream that we have a way of fixing poor kids right...

June 02, 2016

So you want a Scandinavian state pension system, eh?

Or, "no, please don't fling us into that briar patch!" I had observed the other...

June 01, 2016

M.A.D., 2016 edition

You remember MAD, right? (I put the periods in the title so that it's clearer...

June 01, 2016

The latest on affordable housing – and what does it mean, anyway?

So the Chicago Tribune reported on a new report on affordable housing the other day,...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Memorial Day Parade 2016

Yes, this year, as Cub Scout pack committee chair, I marched rather than watched. In...

May 29, 2016

On Obama’s Hiroshima speech – and a sense of history

On Friday, May 27, President Obama, in Japan for the G-7 summit, made a trip...

May 26, 2016

How do you identify?

Transsexual -- what an archaic term! How quickly we've moved from the notion that a...

May 23, 2016

Art and Memory in Elgin

What happens when the meaning of an artwork is forgotten, then half-rediscovered? In Elgin, in...

May 22, 2016

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night – but snakes are another story

This is either a humorous little nothing story, or points to a real problem. As reported...

May 22, 2016

Dear Chicago: Be Kind to Tourists

AirBnB has been in the news in Chicago lately, with disputes about how to regulate residents...

May 21, 2016

Latest “rights” fight: the “right to bury”

From the National Catholic Reporter, "Kentucky archdiocese nixes Supreme Court design on gay couple’s gravestone":...

May 20, 2016

Is it just to pay low wages . . .

if the alternative is no wages? That's the natural follow up to my comment on...

May 18, 2016

The Archdiocese of Chicago provides parental leave – yea! (or not?)

Here's the article that's been linked to by Mark Shea and others: "Archdiocese announces new...

May 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton proposes massive increase in the cost of childcare!

Affordable healthcare . . . Affordable housing . . . Affordable tuition . . ....

May 16, 2016

Books are not ephemera

Or, at least, they shouldn't be. But, apparently, at my local library, that's changing. Books...

May 16, 2016

New Pew data: despite rise of “nones,” church attendance stable

That's not their headline, in the item they posted on Friday. They say, instead, "Gender...

May 15, 2016

Is it the end of the line for Maduro?

Eh, probably not. Look, reports on basket-case Venezuela, such as this one on CNN, appear...

May 15, 2016

The transgender locker room “guidance”, power, and punishment

Here's an article, one of many, about the Obama administration's decree on transgender students: "Obama...

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