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May 2016

May 13, 2016

Women deacons? Um, why?

Yes, everyone was in a writing frenzy about suggestions that the Pope would permit the...

May 13, 2016

Why the Trump nomination won’t tear the GOP apart

How often have you read that this election will end up destroying the Republican Party,...

May 12, 2016

New York, May 11, 2016

Yeah, very rarely, I travel on business. In this case, it was an internal team...

May 08, 2016

Would you folk-dance?

Remember this scene from The Sound of Music? During a ball to welcome the Baroness,...

May 06, 2016

When does parenting end and schooling begin?

Here's an item out of Slate, linking to an article in the Washington Post (it's...

May 05, 2016

Things that suck (in the real world)

So amidst all the hand-wringing about Trump and Clinton, my father-in-law passed away last night....

May 04, 2016

Quick Trump Poll

The next 6 months are going to be filled with debates about whether Clinton or...

May 04, 2016

Whose fault is Trump?

Is it the fault of The Republican Party that Trump is the nominee? Depends on...

May 03, 2016

There is no joy in Mudville

Well, that's over. Cruz crashed in Indiana, and threw in the towel. To be honest,...

May 03, 2016

The Gap Year? Not new, just repackaged.

The Gap Year, the break from formal education between high school and college which is...

May 01, 2016

Is Germany an “unfair trader”? (Spoiler alert: no)

It's like a scene out of high school, in which the slackers seek to sabotage...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Q. How much should we care about suicide?

A. More than we care about breast cancer -- at least, based on causes of...

April 27, 2016

Go, Carly!

So this is what happens when you work at home, and have half-an-eyeball on twitter...

April 26, 2016

Cookies, Cub Scouts, and Candidates – my Tuesday evening

Listening to Trump speaking right now - how depressing! Winning 5 states, by substantial margins....

April 26, 2016

Update on Illinois: Thank God I don’t live in Palatine!

where the Elementary School District 15 School Board has, as far as I, or pretty...

April 25, 2016

Are Social Security benefits “earned”? If not, what next?

That's the reason, or has, at any rate, always been offered as the reason, why...

April 23, 2016

An accidental-shoplifting conundrum

On Fridays, my middle son has a karate class just after dinner, and it's just...

April 22, 2016

What to do about the very poor? (a follow-up to $2 a Day)

So having given a more-or-less straight summary of $2 a Day in my prior post, here...

April 22, 2016

From the library: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

This book is not a polemic. It largely busies itself with simply explaining the lives...

April 21, 2016

Another what-if on locker rooms

Look, we all get it: an individual who has transitioned is in a position where...

April 21, 2016

1.2 billion reasons why Rahm Emanuel — well, read on!

Here's an update on Chicago politics for non-locals. Two years ago, George Lucas announced that...

April 20, 2016

Why did pensions die?

At the very beginning of the Ghilarducci book I discussed yesterday, she says, "From the...

April 19, 2016

From the library: How to Retire with Enough Money and How to Know What Enough Is, a Clear Answer in 116 Pages, by Teresa Ghilarducci

This is the sort of book that reminds me that sometimes what determines whether a...

April 18, 2016

What makes a hero? A small gripe on a Vox article

When I was in high school, I had an elective class on Greek mythology, and...

April 18, 2016

Is your Comcast installer a *Comcast* installer? More on contractors

By coincidence, just after I wrote about independent contractors, Slate had an article about Comcast's use...

April 15, 2016

No, we won’t all be 1099 contractors in the future

So I picked up a book called Raw Deal, by Steven Hill, subtitled How the...

April 14, 2016

A “would you rather” bathroom wars question

Short and simple: Women: Would you rather be changing, in a women's locker room in a...

April 12, 2016

What would an Equal Pay World look like?

Here's something I'd been meaning to write about, and which is timely with today having...

April 12, 2016

Do you live in a bubble of upper-middle-class-ness?

That's the question that this PBS quiz poses, based on Charles Murray's research that shows...

April 12, 2016

What the Pope said doesn’t matter . . .

at least, not nearly as much as what bishops, priests, and ordinary Joes think he...

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