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August 2015

August 15, 2015

Two quotes on violence

From Under the Same Sky, by Joseph Kim, the memoir of life in North Korea...

August 14, 2015

Sorry, but neither party fits the bill

(A guest post by my husband, er, Mike the Actuary) We hear it every day:...

August 14, 2015

From the library: Under the Same Sky, by Joseph Kim

To begin with: a pet peeve. Many years ago, I read a book called A...

August 11, 2015

Grand Haven, August 11, 2015

August 09, 2015

The prize for “best vacation church” goes to . . .

St. Patrick St. Anthony Catholic Church in Grand Haven, Michigan. I sent my husband and...

August 07, 2015

What the candidates have to say for themselves

Let's look at what the candidates have to say! Chris Christie is at chrischristie.com; his...

August 07, 2015

Debate debrief

So, look, I'm overdue for a discussion of the current crop of GOP candidates (sorry,...

August 06, 2015

Fiorina?

I'm seriously considering her. Reports are, she trounced her fellow early-bird-special debaters. (See here.) I...

August 06, 2015

Update from Illinois: a sensible — and sure to be ignored — idea

Illinois is, as I've said before, in terrible shape as far as state and local...

August 05, 2015

Reason #4,231 why Illinois s*&^s — child care cuts

(In which I establish the fact that I'm center-right, not a full-blown rightie, and you...

August 05, 2015

For discussion: on adoption

Yeah, this is truly just a question. Imagine that progressives succeed in their vision of...

August 05, 2015

Four challenges with #DefundPP

1) Is contraception "(medically-necessary) health care" or a wholly separate consumer-product category of drugs and devices,...

August 04, 2015

From the library: Just a Geek, by Wil Wheaton

Just looked at the comments on my prior post on unplanned parenthood, and I ought...

August 03, 2015

#UnplannedParenthood and a chicken-and-egg question

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? (Apparently, the egg, insofar as we've learned...

August 02, 2015

Why does Title X funding still exist, post-Obamacare?

(See disclaimer, below.) Title X is, of course, the program that funds contraception, as provided...

August 02, 2015

Kenosha, August 1, 2015

(taken with my husband's iPhone, and still trying to get the hang of importing...

August 01, 2015

From the library: Ravensbruck, by Sarah Helm

Subtitled, "Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" There's a lot in this...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Walgreens and Planned Parenthood

Yes, I know, and odd juxtaposition, but bear with me. From the Walgreens annual report,...

July 30, 2015

Is Football Moral? (FTL)

This week's "from the library" book: Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond....

July 28, 2015

Is the Boy Scout fight over?

You'd think so. According to various sources -- e.g., Fox News and Buzzfeed, where I...

July 26, 2015

The etsy economy

Remember when I made an amigurumi teddy bear for my son's birthday? After experimenting, I...

July 26, 2015

From the library: The Full Catastrophe by James Angelos

The book is subtitled "Travels Among the New Greek Ruins" but this is a bit...

July 24, 2015

Follow me on facebook. . .

Just an FYI: I tend not to link to articles unless I genuinely have something...

July 23, 2015

Early childhood education and inspirational immigrants

A story in the high school district community education brochure that came today, similar to...

July 22, 2015

How f’ed up is Illinois? Let me count the ways. . .

1) Illinois teachers' pensions are in the news today ("School districts escape pension penalties with help...

July 22, 2015

The difference between Baby Body-Part Harvesting and autopsies

(or, removal of organs for transplantation purposes): I shouldn't even need to say this, but...

July 21, 2015

Marriage and debt: score one for Atlantic readers

The article itself is fairly mundane, about the impact that a person's debt, student loans...

July 20, 2015

“The Most Beautiful [Houses of Worship] in the World

According to Real Clear Religion, who, it should be noted, use the headline "most beautiful...

July 19, 2015

From the “library”: Practical Ethics, by Peter Singer

according to which, the words and deeds of Planned Parenthood and its defenders are rational,...

July 18, 2015

“The sanctions wouldn’t have lasted anyway”

That is, so far as I can tell, the rationale for supporting Obama's deal with...

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