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May 2016

May 18, 2016

The Archdiocese of Chicago provides parental leave – yea! (or not?)

Here's the article that's been linked to by Mark Shea and others: "Archdiocese announces new...

May 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton proposes massive increase in the cost of childcare!

Affordable healthcare . . . Affordable housing . . . Affordable tuition . . ....

May 16, 2016

Books are not ephemera

Or, at least, they shouldn't be. But, apparently, at my local library, that's changing. Books...

May 16, 2016

New Pew data: despite rise of “nones,” church attendance stable

That's not their headline, in the item they posted on Friday. They say, instead, "Gender...

May 15, 2016

Is it the end of the line for Maduro?

Eh, probably not. Look, reports on basket-case Venezuela, such as this one on CNN, appear...

May 13, 2016

Women deacons? Um, why?

Yes, everyone was in a writing frenzy about suggestions that the Pope would permit the...

May 12, 2016

New York, May 11, 2016

Yeah, very rarely, I travel on business. In this case, it was an internal team...

May 08, 2016

Would you folk-dance?

Remember this scene from The Sound of Music? During a ball to welcome the Baroness,...

May 06, 2016

When does parenting end and schooling begin?

Here's an item out of Slate, linking to an article in the Washington Post (it's...

May 05, 2016

Things that suck (in the real world)

So amidst all the hand-wringing about Trump and Clinton, my father-in-law passed away last night....

May 03, 2016

There is no joy in Mudville

Well, that's over. Cruz crashed in Indiana, and threw in the towel. To be honest,...

May 03, 2016

The Gap Year? Not new, just repackaged.

The Gap Year, the break from formal education between high school and college which is...

May 01, 2016

Is Germany an “unfair trader”? (Spoiler alert: no)

It's like a scene out of high school, in which the slackers seek to sabotage...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Q. How much should we care about suicide?

A. More than we care about breast cancer -- at least, based on causes of...

April 26, 2016

Cookies, Cub Scouts, and Candidates – my Tuesday evening

Listening to Trump speaking right now - how depressing! Winning 5 states, by substantial margins....

April 23, 2016

An accidental-shoplifting conundrum

On Fridays, my middle son has a karate class just after dinner, and it's just...

April 22, 2016

What to do about the very poor? (a follow-up to $2 a Day)

So having given a more-or-less straight summary of $2 a Day in my prior post, here...

April 22, 2016

From the library: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

This book is not a polemic. It largely busies itself with simply explaining the lives...

April 18, 2016

What makes a hero? A small gripe on a Vox article

When I was in high school, I had an elective class on Greek mythology, and...

April 18, 2016

Is your Comcast installer a *Comcast* installer? More on contractors

By coincidence, just after I wrote about independent contractors, Slate had an article about Comcast's use...

April 15, 2016

No, we won’t all be 1099 contractors in the future

So I picked up a book called Raw Deal, by Steven Hill, subtitled How the...

April 14, 2016

A “would you rather” bathroom wars question

Short and simple: Women: Would you rather be changing, in a women's locker room in a...

April 12, 2016

What would an Equal Pay World look like?

Here's something I'd been meaning to write about, and which is timely with today having...

April 12, 2016

Do you live in a bubble of upper-middle-class-ness?

That's the question that this PBS quiz poses, based on Charles Murray's research that shows...

April 12, 2016

What the Pope said doesn’t matter . . .

at least, not nearly as much as what bishops, priests, and ordinary Joes think he...

April 12, 2016

From the library: On Saudi Arabia, by Karen Elliott House

Subtitled Its People,Past, Religion, Fault Lines -- and Future, this book, published in 2012, was...

April 11, 2016

From the library: Generation War

Lots of spoilers here, so click away if you were thinking of checking this movie...

April 09, 2016

Did the Pope punt?

Did the Pope just admit remarried Catholics to communion? Strictly speaking, no. Did he make...

April 08, 2016

What does the pope say?

in the new apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of Love"? Nothing that I can pin down...

April 07, 2016

Some disability program comparisons

What do maternity leave programs look like in those states which have adopted a program?...