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July 2019

July 17, 2019

Vacation 2019, part four: Mykonos and Chania

Day 8: Mykonos. It's all about expectations, in the end. I had low expectations for...

July 16, 2019

Vacation 2019, part three: Athens

Day 7: Athens. So I'll start off with a couple planning mistakes: First, we had...

July 15, 2019

Vacation 2019, part two: Santorini

Continuing with my vacation narrative: Day 4: the start of the cruise. We took our...

July 14, 2019

Vacation 2019, part one: Montreal and Rome

So I promised, upon getting back from our vacation, that I would write about it. ...

July 06, 2019

Is Immigration Restrictionism on The Sin List?

That's the gist of an argument among fellow Patheos writers that seems to have transpired...

July 05, 2019

American (and Greek, and German) exceptionalism

Remember the dust-up about whether Obama believed in "American exceptionalism" -- that is, as shorthand...

July 03, 2019

Looking for a 4Chan mole

You've no doubt read about the latest nonsense in claimed "offensive" symbols: that Nike was...

July 02, 2019

What I learned on my cruise

So, other than a pre-scheduled post last week, the blogging has been quiet as of...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Back in time to February 1970

So regular readers will know I've been engaged in the process of working with my...

June 15, 2019

No, there is no “right to a baby box”

SMDH, as they say. Let me start by telling you about the "family bill of...

June 06, 2019

Are the men of D-Day lost forever?

Ever since Tom Brokaw coined the term the "Greatest Generation" to refer to the men...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Just how far are we willing to “trust women”?

"Trust women." That's what we're told, time and again. We should "trust" that there is...

May 21, 2019

Parsing Mayor Lightfoot’s Inaugural Address

Is it an inaugural address if it's given by a mayor rather than a president? ...

May 19, 2019

The Game of Thrones insight you’ve all been waiting for

Plus, a link and three questions. First, the insight: GOT is a massive spectacle. It's...

May 17, 2019

The statistics on abortion and social class

So in my prior post, I observed that the conventional wisdom that "the only people...

May 17, 2019

Who are the real pro-lifers?

One reads a lot, these days, about what it means to be "pro-life" -- and...

May 14, 2019

Pfleger, Farrakhan, and Trains-Run-On-Time-Ism

First, an update on the fallout from the Farrakhan speech at St. Sabina's Church in...

May 10, 2019

When is enough, enough, for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s tolerance of Fr. Pfleger?

In the news today, "A Catholic church hosted Louis Farrakhan for an anti-Facebook speech. At...

May 07, 2019

Why I don’t care about Trump’s tax return

The Democrats are going after Trump's tax returns. In the first place, the House Ways...

May 06, 2019

Decriminalization, normalization, celebration?

Illinois readers will know that, under the new governor JB Pritzker, the state is moving...

May 02, 2019

So . . . let’s talk Game of Thrones

Yes, it's a rarity, a popular culture phenomenon that I am actually clued into. But...

May 02, 2019

What will the French do in the Notre Dame restoration?

Answer: whatever the heck they want to do. I know that many of us outside...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

Tellers, living wages, single parenting, and an annoying Congressional hearing

Over at Forbes, I referenced a Washington Post column claiming that it is super-inappropriate to...

April 25, 2019

A Boy Scout Update

So I feel obliged to comment on this latest news report about the Boy Scouts,...

April 24, 2019

A Girl Scout Update

So Sunday was, of course, Easter, and that means the customary full-page ad in the...

April 21, 2019

Easter family update

So it's been a nice Easter Sunday, actually. I went to Easter Vigil last night,...

April 15, 2019

Watching Notre Dame Burn

First, my memories. For what it's worth, I was at Notre Dame in Paris three...

April 13, 2019

In which things get worse (a mom-and-dad update)

Admittedly, we're not at the "put mom in a home" stage. But we are getting...

April 09, 2019

Fixing CFM

What is CFM? CFM stands for Christian Family Movement, though it's specifically a Catholic group. ...

April 08, 2019

Can we have nice things after all? Nathan Pyle edition

Did Arthur Brooks plan for his book Love Your Enemies to be released a few...

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