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July 2018

July 05, 2018

A Compromise For Illinois

Here's an item in the Illinois state constitution that fiscal conservatives don't like: Article XIII,...

July 04, 2018

Are Roe & Obergefell a new generation’s Marbury v. Madison?

You remember Marbury v. Madison, don't you? Whether you learned about it in your government...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Summer Reading Choices – Yikes!

So my son is going to be in 10th grade next year, and as usual,...

June 27, 2018

Does “use it or lose it” apply to religious freedom?

In today's Chicago Tribune: "Notre Dame, feds are sued in contraception complaint" (or "Students sue...

June 27, 2018

“At the corner of Wells and Wells” – huh?

It's comical -- to an extent. Here in Chicago, aldermen may not exercise much power...

June 22, 2018

Post-corporate update, week 3

As a reminder for occasional readers, I quit my job, with my last day of...

June 21, 2018

The Sh**hole theory of immigration politics

If nothing else, the entire debate around "kids in cages" has made clear some attitudes...

June 20, 2018

Sailing, memory, and “sorry, honey”

Longtime readers will know that we are a sailing family. We have a 25' Catalina...

June 18, 2018

Kids, Cages, Part 2

No, I am not a proponent of unnecessarily separating children from their parents. At the...

June 18, 2018

About Father’s Day

This is another in that category of posts in which I gripe about a thing...

June 15, 2018

Germans, Americans, Illegal Immigration, and “Kids in Cages”

Here are a smattering of thoughts which I had had good intentions of blogging about...

June 11, 2018

“Ask a North Korean” and why there’s at least a little bit of cause for hopefulness at the Kim-Trump summit

"Ask a North Korean" refers to two things: first, a feature at nknews.org, and second,...

June 11, 2018

Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Germans in Buczacz: Anatomy of a Genocide by Omer Barton

Readers of a certain age may remember the splash Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners made...

June 08, 2018

Some reminders on suicide

Every now and again, I revisit the issue of suicide. I am hardly an expert...

June 06, 2018

D-Day, revisited

Omaha Beach. It's almost become our national origin story, the heroism of American soldiers marching...

June 02, 2018

In which I (justifiably) rant at the State of Illinois

It's election time. And that means that Illinois politicians -- the legislators in the General...

June 01, 2018

Greek-style lamb and pasta skillet (a from-scratch Hamburger Helper)

Here's my latest recipe: a lamb and pasta skillet dish. This was inspired by a...

June 01, 2018

A career move that’s either incredibly brilliant or mind-blowingly stupid

So I quit my job yesterday. To clarify, I quit the job that I've had...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Graduation-Speech Non-Scandal

It's graduation season, and hence we have, from the New York Times, the report: "Catholic...

May 22, 2018

Dear BSA: Fix this. NOW.

The Daily Mail reports: "Condoms must now be made available to 'all participants' at the...

May 20, 2018

Do we need American Exceptionalism?

You know the quote, don't you? I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect...

May 16, 2018

There are (literally) no words for what’s going on in Gaza

Is what's going on in Gaza at the moment a "protest"? No. Protestors march around...

May 12, 2018

Starbucks schadenfreude – and a serious “unintended consequences” issue

An update on Starbucks: as part of its resolution to the bad publicity in the...

May 11, 2018

Tire-changers in the (twitter) news

The second, from Channnn @Chan_the_world (and, no, I can't figure out why this time around,...

May 08, 2018

Offensive or celebratory? The Met Gala 2018

The New York Times: "The Scene Inside the Met Gala." Also, "What Is the Met...

May 03, 2018

Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and us

Yes, it's taken me a while to start typing about Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old British...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

More “Holocaust Education” isn’t the fix for antisemitism

Back a couple weeks ago, a new poll showed that Americans displayed, well, undesirably-low levels...

April 23, 2018

Updates wanted – Girl Cub Scouts

Today the AP reported on Cub Scout packs which have plunged into inviting girls to...

April 21, 2018

Needs vs. Wants, date night edition

I try not to do too many of the "take a look at this terrible article"...

April 18, 2018

A protest about nothing?

A Seinfeldian protest, if you will, that is, in reference to the TV show that...