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February 2015

February 27, 2015

Day One (or day 597, but who’s counting?)

Welcome to my world! I’m excited to be blogging at the Patheos community, after about...

February 26, 2015

Yesterday was National Adjunct Walkout Day. Did you notice?

A Facebook friend posted about this yesterday; at various colleges & community colleges across the...

February 26, 2015

Parking a link: on the minimum wage

Why is it that, whenever newspapers want to find sad stories to illustrate their political...

February 25, 2015

No surprise, I guess. . . the Senate GOP caves on immigration

On Cuba, after what was claimed to be intense negotiations, Obama announced as much liberalization...

February 24, 2015

The 21 Copts were real martyrs

Do you remember back in Sunday School, when the teacher would impress on you how...

February 23, 2015

Does it matter whether Obama is a Christian?

I've been writing (too?) frequently on this topic (e.g., yesterday's post on an interview with...

February 22, 2015

Is Obama a Christian? Straight from the horses’ mouth.

(For quite some time, I was a new enough blogger that I could find anything...

February 22, 2015

I’d forgotten about liturgy. . .

(Some backstory here.)I didn't grow up Catholic, but Lutheran. Well, mostly. Mom is Lutheran and...

February 22, 2015

Parking a link: on Detroit suburbs

If you have no connection to Detroit, this piece, "Does your Detroit suburb suck? An...

February 20, 2015

From the library: Burn

Yeah, so this is a film, not a book. It's about firefighters in Detroit, and...

February 20, 2015

Who pays for mass transit?

This is somewhat long-winded and it takes a while to get to my point (to...

February 19, 2015

Obama seems to think that ISIS is a new incarnation of the People’s Temple. Is he right?

Spoiler alert: no.But here's what I'm thinking:Obama repeatedly insists that ISIS is "not Islamic" and...

February 18, 2015

It’s Ash Wednesday

And I'm going to ramble a bit to see if anything interesting comes out.If you're...

February 18, 2015

Making sense of Obama’s Op-Ed

Is Obama just stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the connection between Islamic terror groups and, well,...

February 18, 2015

“Final resting place”

Here's an article (somewhat older, but the story's still the same) on Germany burial practices....

February 18, 2015

Parking a link: labor force participation

This map, from the New York Times, claims to be about how many women are...

February 18, 2015

Free Range Parenting

Here's a link to an NPR article on the subject, citing cases of parents in...

February 18, 2015

Parking a link: Boris Johnson and the IRS

Nothing particularly new in this news item out of The Atlantic, but worth a read...

February 17, 2015

From a reader: a question for my fellow actuaries (updated)

To be updated with my own reply later today, but I know I have other...

February 16, 2015

ISIS: have you seen these links?

"What ISIS really wants," from The Atlantic, is a pretty in-depth profile of ISIS and...

February 15, 2015

Just a reminder. . .

Please don't interpret the fact that I'm not writing about such developments as the latest...

February 15, 2015

Exhibit A on why we need tax reform

No, not nonsense about per-child or other kids of tax credits.But instead, a change in...

February 15, 2015

So I finally saw American Sniper. . .

It was a Valentine's Day outing with my husband. Yeah, not a standard Date Night...

February 13, 2015

From the library: Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation, by Michael Zielenziger

This is actually an old book, dating from 2006. I strayed from the new book...

February 13, 2015

More on the Chapel Hill shooter, and anger

(For context, see my post from Wednesday.)I just wrote the text below as a comment...

February 12, 2015

What we’re missing about the Jackie Robinson West scandal

First of all, the reporting:Per the Chicago Tribune:Little League International stripped Jackie Robinson West of...

February 11, 2015

On the Chapel Hill shootings (first reactions) (plus updates)

(Update: see more reflections here.)For those in a cave, three people were shot in their...

February 11, 2015

Obama calls ISIS a “brutal, vicious death cult” – can we work with that?

(What's good, and bad, about blogging on your own is that it requires no self-discipline....

February 10, 2015

Obama, the Crusades, and the Jews

So right now lots of conservatives are flipping out that Obama compared ISIS to the...

February 10, 2015

Thinking about Obama’s denial of Radical Islamism, and his “anti-Crusades” speech

What does Obama really think about ISIS and radical Islam? And about the Crusades, for...