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August 2015

August 05, 2015

Four challenges with #DefundPP

1) Is contraception "(medically-necessary) health care" or a wholly separate consumer-product category of drugs and devices,...

August 04, 2015

From the library: Just a Geek, by Wil Wheaton

Just looked at the comments on my prior post on unplanned parenthood, and I ought...

August 03, 2015

#UnplannedParenthood and a chicken-and-egg question

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? (Apparently, the egg, insofar as we've learned...

August 02, 2015

Why does Title X funding still exist, post-Obamacare?

(See disclaimer, below.) Title X is, of course, the program that funds contraception, as provided...

August 02, 2015

Kenosha, August 1, 2015

(taken with my husband's iPhone, and still trying to get the hang of importing...

August 01, 2015

From the library: Ravensbruck, by Sarah Helm

Subtitled, "Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" There's a lot in this...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Walgreens and Planned Parenthood

Yes, I know, and odd juxtaposition, but bear with me. From the Walgreens annual report,...

July 30, 2015

Is Football Moral? (FTL)

This week's "from the library" book: Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond....

July 28, 2015

Is the Boy Scout fight over?

You'd think so. According to various sources -- e.g., Fox News and Buzzfeed, where I...

July 26, 2015

The etsy economy

Remember when I made an amigurumi teddy bear for my son's birthday? After experimenting, I...

July 26, 2015

From the library: The Full Catastrophe by James Angelos

The book is subtitled "Travels Among the New Greek Ruins" but this is a bit...

July 24, 2015

Follow me on facebook. . .

Just an FYI: I tend not to link to articles unless I genuinely have something...

July 23, 2015

Early childhood education and inspirational immigrants

A story in the high school district community education brochure that came today, similar to...

July 22, 2015

How f’ed up is Illinois? Let me count the ways. . .

1) Illinois teachers' pensions are in the news today ("School districts escape pension penalties with help...

July 22, 2015

The difference between Baby Body-Part Harvesting and autopsies

(or, removal of organs for transplantation purposes): I shouldn't even need to say this, but...

July 21, 2015

Marriage and debt: score one for Atlantic readers

The article itself is fairly mundane, about the impact that a person's debt, student loans...

July 20, 2015

“The Most Beautiful [Houses of Worship] in the World

According to Real Clear Religion, who, it should be noted, use the headline "most beautiful...

July 19, 2015

From the “library”: Practical Ethics, by Peter Singer

according to which, the words and deeds of Planned Parenthood and its defenders are rational,...

July 18, 2015

“The sanctions wouldn’t have lasted anyway”

That is, so far as I can tell, the rationale for supporting Obama's deal with...

July 17, 2015

The Little Sisters and Contraception: more geeking out

So we bloggers at the Patheos Catholic channel (and elsewhere) have pretty much exhausted ourselves...

July 15, 2015

In case blogging is light. . .

My birthday present just came in the mail!

July 15, 2015

New study: between 5% and 64% of women regret their abortion

OK, that's not the claim in the actual study. The study itself, "Decision Rightness and...

July 14, 2015

The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative

As reported by Tuesday's Chicago Tribune: Chicago will be the kickoff site for the 100,000...

July 14, 2015

True or False?: “The world would be a more peaceful place if. . .”; plus: what I don’t understand

"if Israel had made the necessary concessions to provide for a Palestinian state." "if Israel...

July 12, 2015

Tell me about London!

Here's a request: We're looking at vacation options for 2016 (yes, I know it's early!)...

July 12, 2015

Guess what? Our number system has nothing to do with the age of maturity

Here's an article in today's paper, a piece from AP: "Teen Truckers? Bill Would Drop...

July 11, 2015

Update on the Colorado LARC experiment

Remember Colorado's experiment with free LARC (that is IUDs and implanted contraception) for teens and poor...

July 10, 2015

Part-time student? The Rahmfather* says no.

(* Yes, I’m stealing this from John Kass.) It’s well-established that graduation rates at community...

July 10, 2015

Easy-peasy solution to the issue of SSM-objecting judges

Glenn Reynolds linked this morning to a case, one of many, of a judge who...

July 08, 2015

The “meaning of marriage” problem, again

Still thinking about marriage, especially in light of some of the comments in my earlier...