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April 2015

April 03, 2015

Triduum Update

Yeah, I feel as if I should write something appropriate to the liturgical season, though...

April 03, 2015

Update on Indiana – and a question

First of all, the Indiana legislature revised its legislation yesterday with an amendment "that, while not...

April 02, 2015

Legislating morality, 2015 edition

Here's an observation: Civil Rights laws were passed to remedy the real harm that was...

April 01, 2015

“Progressives”, “Liberals” and Liberty

When did American politics develop the animosity that currently exists, that one's political opponent is...

April 01, 2015

Can’t we all just get along? Religious Discrimination and Equal Rights

You'd think the answer to the issue of the clash between religious freedom and equal...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Required Minimum Distributions: a small anecdote

Do retirees really, consistently, have the level of financial understanding necessary to manage, not a...

March 31, 2015

Is a childhood love of reading crucial for success?

Here's something I started typing up a while back; thought I'd finish this as a...

March 30, 2015

The “Harper Promise”

In the local news is the newly-announced program at the local community college, the "Harper...

March 30, 2015

Things I am not writing about

I haven't written one of these in a while: that sort of post wherein I...

March 29, 2015

Back from The Mitten: More thoughts about Detroit

First item: For those of you who don't do Twitter, a Detroiter (besides the one...

March 27, 2015

Report from The D: it takes more than a Whole Foods to revive a city

Everyone's oohing and aaahing about the claimed revival of Detroit, as epitomized by the new...

March 25, 2015

Update on Prairie Crossing

I suppose "update" isn't quite the right word, even though it feels to me like...

March 24, 2015

There is no such thing as “White Hispanic” – except in the census definitions

So Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for President, and now we're back to the question...

March 23, 2015

Are Catholic schools worth it? Part two: dynamic scoring

So I had a long chat with my husband over dinner (yes, a rare treat...

March 22, 2015

Are Catholic schools worth it? Or should we throw in the towel?

No, this is not just a rhetorical question. At church, I listened to the pastor,...

March 21, 2015

On Juan Barros: I’m just stumped

The Anchoress (Elizabeth Scalia) reports, "Pope Francis has appointed Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid...

March 21, 2015

Are we romanticizing poor families in history?

The actuary in me insists on getting the math right; the historian in me insists...

March 20, 2015

From the library: America’s Bitter Pill, by Steven Brill

This book is a bit of a bait-and-switch; you all know about the famous "Bitter...

March 20, 2015

Should I sell my soul? To the Heartland Institute, that is

Fun little item in the paper the other day; actually it was an advertisement in...

March 20, 2015

The “fun deficit” and other bits & pieces from Hillary Clinton

Yeah, I'm late to chime in on Hillary's appearance at the American Camp Association of New...

March 19, 2015

What do you know about the Parish Transformation Initiative?

Yes, this is a genuine question, not just a rhetorical one. I came across this...

March 18, 2015

Sex, gender, and the evolution of language

Or, "wow, that was fast." Once upon a time, "gender" had one meaning: the linguistic...

March 17, 2015

St. Patrick’s Day and Cultural Appropriation

You can't avoid it. It's everywhere: little girls Irish-dancing their way through your facebook feed,...

March 17, 2015

Is Islamic State’s destruction shocking and radical? The Saudis say “meh”

A couple days ago, my son asked me how big Jerusalem and Mecca were, as...

March 16, 2015

6 reasons why Mom and Dad should move

It's a listsicle, as I've learned this is called! But we'll be visiting my parents...

March 16, 2015

From the library: The Age of Dignity; Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, by Ai-Jen Poo

The author (whose foreign name is due to Taiwanese ancestry, but this doesn't particularly factor...

March 15, 2015

Is math optional? Or, should we have O and A levels, a Bac or an Abitur?

A couple days ago, I wrote about the "Power of 15" initiative at our local...

March 14, 2015

What makes poor men unmarriageable?

Here's a Ross Douthat column in the New York Times: "For Poorer and Richer." This...

March 14, 2015

On getting Catholics to sing: a question

This is more of an open-ended post for reader comments, on something I've been thinking...

March 13, 2015

Is telecommuting the answer for working mothers?

So says an article at The Federalist this afternoon, "Women Can’t Have it All, But They...

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