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March 2015

March 12, 2015

A death (literally) too close to home

This, from the local news yesterday: "Arlington Heights woman dies from crash injuries." The story:...

March 11, 2015

“Power of 15”: Higher Education Bubble sign or Reynolds’ Law?

Boy, that's a cryptic title, but something more descriptive would also be significantly wordier. "Power...

March 11, 2015

Emailgate: the latest media spin

You've been following the reporting on Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail address, and...

March 10, 2015

From the library: Social Security Works! by Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson

The subtitle to the book pretty much says it all, "Why Social Security Isn't Going...

March 10, 2015

From the Library: A Battle for the Soul of Islam, by Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser

This'll be short, as I already had to return the book from the library and...

March 10, 2015

From the library: The Smartest Kids in the World, and how they got that way, by Amanda Ripley

Yeah, I’d been meaning to read this one for a while, and now I’ve got...

March 08, 2015

Were children in the past really a profit center for their parents?

You've read this before, right? For much of human history, children were economically valuable to...

March 08, 2015

Visit me on facebook!

At the old blog, I would occasionally link, without much comment, to various interesting articles....

March 08, 2015

Is Megan McArdle a freeloader? (spoiler alert: no)

You all know Megan McArdle, right? Blogger extraordinaire at Bloomberg View, author of "The Up...

March 07, 2015

“Worse than death”?

So here's something I came across yesterday (and forgive me if it takes a while...

March 05, 2015

“Lent-to-date” weight loss: 2 pounds

Look, I know, it's bad form to kill two birds with one stone by combining...

March 05, 2015

The Jane Tax Plan

Everyone seems to think that the Lee/Rubio tax plan is the greatest thing since sliced...

March 05, 2015

Some links on retirement and related issues

Too many open browser windows, so it's time so share some of the links that...

March 04, 2015

Should parents be compensated for their contribution to society?

I said yesterday that I didn’t find it persuasive that parents pay a “penalty” in...

March 03, 2015

The Rubio-Lee Tax Plan (with bonus Jane Tax Plan)

Senators Mike Lee and Marco Rubio have a piece in the Wall Street Journal today...

March 03, 2015

Just say no to the “parent penalty” concept

which is, apparently, the new terminology that supporters of an increased per-child tax credit are...

March 02, 2015

What to do about liturgy?

A week ago, I wrote about a house liturgy I had the privilege to attend,...

March 02, 2015

New study: Single upper class women are 4 times as likely to abort

That's the unexpected data point from a Brookings study, as linked to by the Washington...

March 01, 2015

Can we stop using the word “radicalize” in the passive voice?

It's pervasive, really. Every time you read of someone joining the extremist Islamists, either by...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

On the Pullman National Monument

Back a couple weeks ago, President Obama was in town to declare the Pullman Historic...

February 27, 2015

Day One (or day 597, but who’s counting?)

Welcome to my world! I’m excited to be blogging at the Patheos community, after about...

February 26, 2015

Yesterday was National Adjunct Walkout Day. Did you notice?

A Facebook friend posted about this yesterday; at various colleges & community colleges across the...

February 26, 2015

Parking a link: on the minimum wage

Why is it that, whenever newspapers want to find sad stories to illustrate their political...

February 25, 2015

No surprise, I guess. . . the Senate GOP caves on immigration

On Cuba, after what was claimed to be intense negotiations, Obama announced as much liberalization...

February 24, 2015

The 21 Copts were real martyrs

Do you remember back in Sunday School, when the teacher would impress on you how...

February 23, 2015

Does it matter whether Obama is a Christian?

I've been writing (too?) frequently on this topic (e.g., yesterday's post on an interview with...

February 22, 2015

Is Obama a Christian? Straight from the horses’ mouth.

(For quite some time, I was a new enough blogger that I could find anything...

February 22, 2015

I’d forgotten about liturgy. . .

(Some backstory here.)I didn't grow up Catholic, but Lutheran. Well, mostly. Mom is Lutheran and...

February 22, 2015

Parking a link: on Detroit suburbs

If you have no connection to Detroit, this piece, "Does your Detroit suburb suck? An...

February 20, 2015

From the library: Burn

Yeah, so this is a film, not a book. It's about firefighters in Detroit, and...

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