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August 2016

August 21, 2016

Help wanted: Cars! (and: you can take the girl out of Michigan . . .)

So my youngest son turned 9 last May, which means that our two cars also...

August 21, 2016

What about Caster Semenya?

She won the gold in the women's 800 meter race Friday, with a time more...

August 16, 2016

Remember Marbury vs. Madison? A question for readers

Apropos of nothing, here's something that I was thinking about the other day. We all...

August 14, 2016

Should we give up on Aleppo?

Aleppo, Syria's largest city, is currently suffering heavily. The city is divided into two, half...

August 14, 2016

When will we reach Peak Pot?

and what will it look like? I wrote on Friday about the Gallup poll reporting...

August 12, 2016

Pretending correlation is causation: pot and babies

Two statistics from the past week: First, a Gallup poll that reported that 13% of...

August 12, 2016

Objecting to objection: Abortion in Italy

Just passing on a link to an article in the New York Times, "On Paper,...

August 09, 2016

What about Nada Meawad?

The Egyptian volleyball player. No, not her. I'm not referring to Doaa Elghobashy, the hijab-wearing player...

August 05, 2016

Winningen, Mosel Valley, Germany – so cute you want to pinch yourself

So unless you're here for the wine festival, Winningen isn't itself a tourist destination (though...

August 05, 2016

Camden Market + Canal Boats, London

More pictures! And another destination courtesy our longer stay in London: Camden Market, a funky...

August 04, 2016

Lower Marsh Street, Waterloo, London

Here's a shopping district that we stumbled upon looking for somewhere to eat after the...

August 03, 2016

In my twitter feed: what is masculinity?

Readers will know I'm a mom of three boys. None of them are "typical" boys...

August 02, 2016

A new solution to all your Trump woes?

OK, so all the wishful thinking about the Libertarians getting enough votes to play spoiler...

August 02, 2016

Vacation photos, part 2: The Dokumentazionsstatte Regierungsbunker

A must-see: the Government Bunkers. Well, except for the fact that English-language tours are only...

August 01, 2016

Who wants to play QuizClash?

Just for fun, I've been playing against my husband with the username Janetheactuary, and we're...

August 01, 2016

The CDC: Rent-seekers or Cowboys, part II

So a while back, I read and wrote about an article about an increase in...

August 01, 2016

A tour of Holy Doors

Finally getting around to posting some pictures from the vacation, where the Holy Year added...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why are America’s roads so much worse than Europe’s?

You can't help but notice the European roads -- smooth as a baby's bottom. Well,...

July 30, 2016

Speaking of strange hyphenizations . . .

Yeah, this is more of an annoyance than anything, but I observed the other day...

July 28, 2016

What does “Muslim-American” mean?

Would you say, of the friendly Patheos Catholic blogging team, "they're Catholic-Americans"? Would you refer...

July 26, 2016

What about being “personally opposed” to the death penalty?

So lots of people are upset that Tim Kaine is a professing Catholic who has...

July 26, 2016

Who deserves a Facebook flag tribute?

The French had their "Je suis Charlie" moment, followed by Bataclan. Then we changed our...

July 22, 2016

Munich (the latest in the “pray for” series . . .) – with updates

From the Daily Mail (of course): "'Several dead' and 10 injured in shooting rampage inside...

July 21, 2016

Slate author: no such thing as a “male body”

No surprise, I guess, but a Slate author, Chase Strangio, went further than I've yet seen...

July 20, 2016

Was the failed coup a Reichstag fire?

So I told you in my prior post that we drove to Lindau as one...

July 19, 2016

Munich

It’s rainorama here. Or rainapalooza. Rain in the forecast as far as the eye can...

July 18, 2016

Cardinal Marx is a d***ed fool

The latest stats are in -- that is, those for the church withdrawals in Germany...

July 15, 2016

So, is the Rainbow a permanent flag now?

Two images from the U.S. Consulate in Munich today: Yes, if it's not clear, the...

July 13, 2016

Rainbows, traffic lights, and the New Civil Religion

Here's a picture from our walk around Munich yesterday. Yes, that's a Gay Pride crosswalk...

July 13, 2016

Augsburg

Next stop: Augsburg. Given that this is my husband’s hometown, this part of the visit...