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April 2018

April 17, 2018

Is Starbucks fix-able?

Last week, two black men were arrested at a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks, after a dispute...

April 14, 2018

Eeew – yuck! (A food post)

So I was shopping today . . . and, well, you could tell that Greek...

April 12, 2018

What about the new Holocaust poll?

The headline is dramatic: 66% of Millennials don't know what Auschwitz was, and 22% don't...

April 11, 2018

Please tell me your “social capital” retirement stories!

I'm reading about Social Capital and looking to write something about the issue as it...

April 09, 2018

Is Illinois headed toward a Brain Drain?

Some time ago, I wrote about the shocking statistics on declining enrollment at Illinois' "regional"...

April 07, 2018

A Few Kevin D. Williamson Thoughts

For those of you who don't follow All The Right People on twitter, former National...

April 01, 2018

Good Friday: The Most (and Least) Catholic Liturgy

This is not an Easter post. It's not even a Easter Vigil post. I long...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Three things about Emma Gonzalez, accused ostracizer

Earlier today, I saw a snippet of a speech by Emma Gonzalez, emerging gun control...

March 22, 2018

Update on a personal project

This is not something that I'm promoting widely in this space, but I wanted to...

March 21, 2018

Post (Illinois primary) election gripes

For Illinoisians and others following the race: Rauner wins, but with so close a margin...

March 18, 2018

The Jane the Actuary Illinois primary endorsements

Hotly anticipated . . . the Jane the Actuary endorsements in this Tuesday's Illinois primary....

March 15, 2018

Cub Scout update: my last “planned” pack meeting

No, those aren't "my" Cub Scouts; these are just generic public-domain Cub Scouts. I didn't...

March 14, 2018

The GOP remains the stupid party, and other PA 18 observations

The voters have spoken, and by the narrowest of margins, Democrat Conor Lamb will be...

March 12, 2018

Jane’s Teen Mass Pasta

It's a new Instant Pot recipe! Or, rather, I made a few tweaks to one...

March 09, 2018

Farewell, Toys R Us

In the news today, Toys R Us is most likely liquidating its US operations. Bloomberg...

March 08, 2018

Three International Women’s Day items

It's International Women's Day today - an occasion that Americans were pretty indifferent to, in...

March 07, 2018

A few words on Trump’s tariffs

Readers will recall that I am the proud(ish) owner of a new minivan -- and...

March 04, 2018

The Boy Scouts and the no-win-ness of anti-cultural appropriationism

The lawyers at the Boy Scouts of America are working over time. First, as a...

March 03, 2018

Megan McArdle on the NRA, and cultural divides

In her first Washington Post column: Referencing Delta's elimination of a group discount for the...

March 03, 2018

From the twitter feed: Converts, communism, and fact-checking

Miscellaneous items from my twitter feed: Are Muslim immigrants to Europe mission territory? From Church...

March 02, 2018

Four Friday “gun” opinions

Here are just a few words of commentary with the aim of inviting discussion: On...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

How much is a grad student worth?

The graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are striking. Not the STEM...

February 26, 2018

Has immigration been absolved of job-stealing, again?

Yes, I know, rhetorical questions generally have the answer, "no," and in this case, I'm...

February 24, 2018

Ostracizing gun owners? Not so fast.

It's all over the news lately -- or all over twitter, anyway: the reports cheering...

February 24, 2018

The Illinois Governor’s race: ripping the band-aid off

Here's the background for everyone fortunate enough to live elsewhere: Illinois' primary election is coming...

February 23, 2018

On trust: German parenting and Megan McArdle’s trip to Denmark

We tend to explain "helicopter parents," or, as I labelled them previously, "tight-leash parents," with...

February 22, 2018

From the library: Actung Baby, An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children, by Sara Zaske

Turns out, the Germans are actually pretty dang similar to the Dutchies, as profiled in...

February 22, 2018

Small-gripes open thread

So I have a number of posts in the queue, so to speak, whether as...

February 21, 2018

An alternate approach to curtailing mass shootings?

I don't really have much to say on the issue of mass shootings. I don't...

February 20, 2018

From the library: Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream, True Tales of Mexican Migration, by Sam Quinones

So. . . I got this book (an older one, published in 2007 and deaccessioned...