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December 2024

December 22, 2024

Ray Bradbury, Book Burning, dystopias and prognostication

Who was Ray Bradbury? According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1920, spent most of...

November 2024

November 30, 2024

Curing the Birth Dearth: Reading Hannah’s Children

Why has the birth rate cratered in the "developed world" including, quite recently, the United...

November 29, 2024

The chicken shredder, tariffs, and self-sufficiency

What, you may ask, is a chicken shredder? And why do I have a photograph...

October 2024

October 31, 2024

Boys, Men, and unsuccessful solutions to the problem

Some time ago, I wrote a number of blog posts about the troubles that boys...

October 29, 2024

“Kamala Harris will save men’s access to porn!”

No, I am not going to rant about Trump, and I'm not going to rant...

September 2024

September 30, 2024

Some stray thoughts on Buffalo

First, some pictures: At Badlands National Park, at sunrise: Buffalo at sunrise (own work) and...

September 30, 2024

Can we talk about IQ and Lead Poisoning?

IQ tests are designed to measure raw intelligence, irrespective of educational level or age. Hypothetically,...

August 2024

August 31, 2024

The good and bad about Cupich’s DNC prayer

Two weeks ago, Chicago's Cardinal Cupich gave the opening prayer at the Democratic National Convention. ...

August 25, 2024

Is there a housing shortage in America?

"Housing shortage" is a term that conventionally pops up with reference to historical events such...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Six “Blasphemous Olympics Opening Ceremony” Comments

By now everyone has read about the controversial Olympic Opening Ceremony scene last week, so...

July 30, 2024

Crazy cat ladies, etc.

So JD Vance's criticism of childless women, or crazy cat ladies, went viral over the...

June 2024

June 16, 2024

Is Cardinal Cupich a “prayer-denialist”?

A term I just coined, of course. But the Catholic Church has, for millennia, in...

June 16, 2024

Childhood mysteries I will never solve

Dad has passed. Mom has dementia. At this point it is severe enough that she...

May 2024

May 22, 2024

From the River. . . to the Yearbook

More stellar reporting from the Tribune: in a photo spread about a multicultural event, students...

May 22, 2024

The SAT, ESL, and the demise of the Chicago Tribune

Yes, I still subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, though I switched to the digital only...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

On Being Family (Un)Friendly

Tim Carney has a new book out, Family Unfriendly, with, as usual for books these...

April 28, 2024

A visibility day (or week or month) we actually need

So, as it happens, 15 years ago, a transgender activist declared March 31st to be...

March 2024

March 11, 2024

The Pope, war, and surrender

So it's Sunday night and I just clicked "publish" on a post I'd been working...

March 10, 2024

How smart is the Pope, really?

Over and over again, the Pope says things which make "traditional"/ "orthodox"/ "conservative" Catholics want...

February 2024

February 10, 2024

Can “Small Groups” change the world? (+Trump, Biden, & Food)

You've seen the quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can...

December 2023

December 28, 2023

Do The God-Fearers have a place in the Catholic Church?

Who are the God-Fearers, you ask? Let's rephrase that as, "who were the God-Fearers?" --...

December 28, 2023

Why was Jesus born in Bethlehem?

It's Christmas, and massive numbers of people are arriving at the southern border of the...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Why the Holocaust isn’t just one genocide among many

So over the weekend (as part of my overall effort to blog more often) I...

November 25, 2023

Generic-ifying the Holocaust

Yeah, actually I'm not sure of the best way to label this as I try...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

How to solve the migrant crisis in 2 easy steps

The background: Chicago and New York are both dealing with migrant crises. (Yes, this part...

October 21, 2023

Wadea Al-Fayoume, Samantha Woll, and a tangle of unknowns

It's a quiet Saturday afternoon and I had sat down at the computer to put...

September 2023

September 23, 2023

Synod POV: straight talk on doctrine “development”

A follow-up from my prior post, again referencing James Martin's article: Now, I cannot speak...

September 09, 2023

Synod POV: You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test

Yes, I spend too much time on twitter. Among other things, this means that each...

August 2023

August 26, 2023

What happens to the rest of us, when kids fail to learn?

Here's a collection of recent reports on students and young adults in schools and the...

July 2023

July 17, 2023

What’s A Pro-Life Illinoisan To do?

The Illinois Republican Party is struggling -- maybe not in the same way as in...