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May 2015

May 29, 2015

Highland Park, or, you think Detroit is bad . . .

Funny, earlier today I speculated that devolving Detroit -- that is, letting certain parts of...

May 29, 2015

Devolving Detroit

Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a sovereign state...

May 28, 2015

Did you see this? “L.A. labor leaders seek minimum wage exemption for firms with union workers”

From the L.A. Times. Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide...

May 28, 2015

Eric Zorn declares victory

Chicagoland readers will recognize Eric Zorn as one of the Tribune's columnists, whose writing has...

May 27, 2015

STEM? STEAM? Get your own frickin’ acronym

The kids are in bed, or nearly so, so here are some further thoughts on this...

May 27, 2015

STEM into STEAM? Who knew? And: really? Or just rent-seeking?

Over the weekend, the newspaper featured, in its "family activity" listings, a set of activities...

May 26, 2015

In other wedding news: the average cost is . . .

Upwards of $30,000, right? Wrong. Slate (even the old blind sow. . .) had a...

May 26, 2015

What was it like to watch Saigon fall?

Here's instapundit, from this morning, with a particularly-extended pulling-together of links on Iraq and Syria,...

May 25, 2015

The End of the Line on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Three numbers: 2.3% 2.2% 1.8% That point to a major change in employer-sponsored health insurance...

May 25, 2015

Faux outrage, or sounding the alarm?

A couple days ago I registered my disapproval of the National Review's attempt to gain...

May 23, 2015

We finally saw Avengers: Age of Ultron

Yes, there are lots of articles out there on spiritual themes in the movie, including...

May 23, 2015

In case you want to talk about the Duggars

Here's an article (from a Patheos blog which appears to get way, way more traffic than...

May 22, 2015

Conchita Wurst: “He” or “She”?

It's Eurovision Song Contest time, and the media is revisiting last year's winner, Conchita Wurst,...

May 22, 2015

“Boy Scouting is Saved!”

So says Robert Gates, or, rather, that's a very loose paraphrase of his words at...

May 21, 2015

Lay off the Boy Scouts, would’ja?

National Review, which does try to be sensible for all that my left-of-center readers might...

May 21, 2015

Um, OK, so, let’s talk NFP: Persona, anyone?

Hey, readers! Look, I know that many of you aren't Catholic. But I also know...

May 21, 2015

Readers: your turn

It strikes me that moving to Patheos has had one surprising consequence: my commenter base...

May 20, 2015

Legislating AP credit: Higher Education bubble sign or . . .

Not long ago, I wrote about a plan afoot in my local school district/community college...

May 19, 2015

Minimum wage update

Well, Los Angeles has done it: $15/yr, phased in by 2020, as reported, for instance,...

May 19, 2015

Walker, Rubio, Cruz, Jindal — help me out here!

This is getting ridiculous -- between the declared and the you-know-its-going-to-happen undeclared GOP candidates, I...

May 19, 2015

Responding to Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I've been sitting on this for a while, after hastily writing up my summary of...

May 18, 2015

News flash: History doesn’t care

Or maybe I should say, "history doesn't give a rat's a**", except that it's a...

May 18, 2015

Risk compensation, harm reduction, and morality

I was thinking about these concepts in connection with a couple things that came in...

May 16, 2015

Were the seeds of Detroit’s downfall built into its very rise?

Yeah, cryptic title. I'm trying, anyway, to create the sort of clever, intriguing headlines that...

May 15, 2015

Quick Detroit post for the day: the magical Syrians?

Remember when Jeb Bush suggested that the cure for what ails Detroit is to import...

May 15, 2015

From the library: Heretic, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

(I'm going to write this in two parts: for today, a summary of the book; tomorrow I'll...

May 14, 2015

Is the Pullman National Monument whitewashing history?

Or maybe "blackwashing" would be more accurate. Bear with me for some context: The Chicago...

May 14, 2015

Everyone’s talking about the Pew Study. . .

that is, the recently-released data that shows a substantial drop in the numbers of people...

May 14, 2015

Voting with their feet?

A couple days ago, I again griped that Illinois seems both unable and unwilling to...

May 12, 2015

“Forcing your wife to work”? Or sharing the load?

In other news this week (because, remember, I don't like what's going on in Iraq,...