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January 2015

January 04, 2015

More on Christianity in America (with bonus updates)

(originally written 1/4) Funny how your mind wanders during church . . . Our new...

January 04, 2015

Parking a link: on educational-attainment inequality between the rich and middle-class

From the NYT, courtesy a facebook-friend share, "No Rich Child Left Behind."If scientists discovered a...

January 03, 2015

Parking a link: the empty churches of Europe

Here's a WSJ article about Europe's empty churches, and the efforts to repurpose them, and...

January 03, 2015

New terminology for a new year: “Late Adulthood”

So, look, I'm reinventing the wheel, and maybe even suggesting utter nonsense in light of...

January 02, 2015

stray thought: why is the price of gas so low?

Just a quick comment:Lots of reports that Saudi Arabia is choosing not to cut production,...

January 02, 2015

Money well spent!

Lego Education set 9686, Simple and Motorized Mechanisms, is a huge hit around here. If...

January 02, 2015

Feed the North Koreans, because their government pinky-swore to be honest

That's the gist of a Jimmy Carter op-ed piece, apparently originally published in the Washington...

January 01, 2015

The “health of women in academia”

This is something I originally put on twitter as an image, nothing else: a questionnaire...

January 01, 2015

Happy New Year! What are your resolutions?

Or do you eschew making resolutions?I do think it's useful to have some external marker...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Parking a link: a suicide report on CNN

Here's a report from CNN today: "A transgender teen's suicide, a mother's anguish." The story:...

December 30, 2014

Is Bobby Jindal an “Indian American”?

(Following up on my earlier post on "hyphenism.")You know, I have mixed feelings about Bobby...

December 29, 2014

Parking a link: “Catholics at a Crossroads”

From Chicago magazine, a feature article on the declining membership in the Catholic Church in...

December 28, 2014

Parking a link: the bucket list

Remember when Zeke Emanuel said he didn't want to live past age 75? It was...

December 28, 2014

“Hyphenism” just doesn’t work

This line of thinking started when a friend commented on facebook about her own friend's...

December 26, 2014

It’s that time of year again — last chance for 2014-deductible charitible donations

We have a few plans, but I thought I'd solicit suggestions from readers. What are...

December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas, and some observations on gratitude and prayer

I just spent way, way too much time wrapping presents -- which is partly an...

December 23, 2014

Santa Claus is for preschool children

not for elementary-age children, and certainly not for adults. I griped about the Elf on...

December 21, 2014

The number of non-Americans studying STEM in the U.S. says nothing about appropriate immigration policy

You've likely read this article, or any of the multiple similar ones, articles promoting increased...

December 20, 2014

Here’s an idea: lift the embargo, but . . .

Here's an excerpt from an article in City Journal on the situation in Cuba:Even employees inside...

December 20, 2014

A new “three-legged stool” for retirement

Yes, so it's a bit presumptuous of me to announce this, but it's something I've...

December 19, 2014

Here’s what I don’t like about Elf on the Shelf

Not the surveillance-state aspect that everyone's talking about.(You know, the fact that, according to the...

December 19, 2014

Gift suggestions wanted!

My middle son's birthday is December 17th, and we (my husband and I) are the...

December 18, 2014

“Negotiations”? What “negotiations”?

The newspaper headlines this morning, and the online news reported yesterday, were pretty dreary: a...

December 17, 2014

Jeb Bush? No. Just no.

Jeb Bush may have been a spectacular governor; I don't really know. So far as...

December 17, 2014

“Use words if necessary” is a cop-out

If you're Catholic, and maybe even if you aren't, you've probably been told that St....

December 16, 2014

What’s going on in Germany? Not “black lives matter” but Pegida

"Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes" - or, Pegida (Germans like acronyms every bit...

December 15, 2014

On grids and suburbs

For a consulting actuary, I don't travel much -- I generally work with my clients...

December 15, 2014

Parking a link: the economics of labor

According to today's Tribune, Starwood Hotels has piloted a new program that allows its guest...

December 14, 2014

What happened to used bookstores?

Really.Of course, Borders and Barnes & Noble drove out the smaller bookstores, though I was...

December 14, 2014

Parking a link: the cost of “showrooming”

From today's Tribune, a "human interest"-type article on a local store in a trendy Chicago...

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