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June 2015

June 19, 2015

What if diversity is not our strength?

A while ago I drafted a post that went something like this: We say this...

June 19, 2015

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing – overreach or “meh”?

Here's an article in the WSJ that was being shared on twitter the other day:...

June 18, 2015

The trouble with gratitude

Backstory: my 12-year old son broke his arm on Tuesday. We had a follow-up doctor's...

June 16, 2015

Long day. . .

Well, it started as a fairly routine summer day around here: the oldest left for...

June 16, 2015

Why do we care whether Rachel Dolezal “identifies as black”?

OK, yes, that's a rhetorical question. Because it's fairly obvious why this matters. A generation...

June 15, 2015

The CDC: rent-seekers or cowboys?

The CDC definition of maternal mortality is much more expansive than the rest of the...

June 14, 2015

The irony in “Why I remain Catholic”

"Why do you remain Catholic, when so many are leaving?" That's the question that many...

June 13, 2015

Fixing religious ed?

So last month, there were a few articles floating around Patheos about various bishops in...

June 12, 2015

Headed towards Bologna? An update on degree “travel time”

In my post the other day on European universities, I mentioned that Students are also...

June 12, 2015

A question: on names?

Do you call people by their last name -- friends, co-workers, neighbors? As in, "Hey,...

June 12, 2015

A few words on overtime. . . there’s a lot of grey

The context: the Obama administration is in the process of determining an updated salary threshold...

June 12, 2015

Fixing the English language, or not?

Here's your flaky PC complaint for the day: "'you guys' is sexist because it excludes...

June 12, 2015

Odd news for the day: transracialism

Yes, that's the way people are tossing around this story, about a woman, Rachel Dolezal,...

June 10, 2015

“Just saying no” on healthcare costs

Here's an interesting piece of news, from Kaiser back in May but reprinted in the...

June 09, 2015

Poems by my 2nd grader

who brought home his Poetry Book, what with tomorrow being the last day of school....

June 09, 2015

Truth and consequences, Emma Sulkowicz edition

(If you're missing background on the Sulkowicz story, here's a piece by Megan McArdle with...

June 09, 2015

College for all, the Europeans, and path dependency

Remember when Bernie Sanders proposed his College for All Act? I had initially thought of it...

June 08, 2015

CBD Oil, and politics

Somehow I ended up on the mailing list of the representative whose district I used...

June 07, 2015

Student loans: on that NYT piece. . .

There was a piece in the New York Times yesterday in which the author defended...

June 07, 2015

Where did Emma Sulkowicz come from?

Let's start with the old Detroit Institute of Arts commercial I remember from my childhood,...

June 06, 2015

The Other D-Day Story

Start with Ronald Reagan's "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech, at Real Clear Politics today....

June 06, 2015

The United Airlines case, and letting the Wookie win

You guys have heard about this, right? A woman wearing a headscarf claims discrimination because...

June 06, 2015

Stand up and tell ’em you’re from Detroit!

Yeah, I came across this old ad for the local news crew in Detroit, from...

June 05, 2015

Should you (or I) support the Quality Schools Tax Credit Act?

This is an Illinois thing. Here's a link to a site promoting it; this is...

June 04, 2015

Is this a game-changer? Garment-industry automation

Per The Economist, in a preview of their upcoming issue, as tweeted by them, "Made...

June 03, 2015

Why I remain a Catholic

Yeah, everyone at Patheos Catholic -- or many of us, anyway -- are writing on...

June 02, 2015

What does it mean to be a woman?

Not this. That is a link to the Vanity Fair article, with image, of the...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Minimum wage and the dignity of work

Here's something I typed up shortly after LA increased their minimum wage, and am now...

May 30, 2015

On Detroit, Jeb Bush is a little bit right. . .

Remember when I griped that some know-it-alls thought that the cure for what ails Detroit...

May 30, 2015

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + . . . = ?

So my kids have been watching "Numberphile" videos on youtube lately. Like this one: