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December 2014

December 12, 2014

So, who do you like for 2016?

Boehner just pushed through the "CRomnibus" -- an omnibus spending bill to the end of...

December 11, 2014

WW[HR]D — What would HR do?

You're an HR specialist. Your company just had its annual Christmas Party over the weekend....

December 10, 2014

Remember Margaret Mary Vojtko?

Quite some time ago, there was a report making the rounds about an adjunct French...

December 09, 2014

The Berkeley Protests: why?

Here's a link to The Gateway Pundit on the direction the protests have taken at...

December 08, 2014

Update on Young vs. UPS: the “Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Back last week, in commenting on the current case at the Supreme Court on accomodations...

December 05, 2014

“Set phasers to stun”

(Second of two hasty posts on the policing controversies.)What do the Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner,...

December 05, 2014

What happened to civil disobedience?

Once upon a time, "civil disobedience" referred to refusing to obey unjust laws, either by...

December 04, 2014

Parking a link: “Baby Bust Threatens Growth”

From the Wall Street Journal. (The link, if I did this right, goes directly to...

December 03, 2014

In the case of the pregnant UPS worker, there’s no simple answer

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 says quite clearly: employers must treat pregnant women exactly...

December 02, 2014

What is an apology?

Courtesy instapundit.com, a link to a story in USA Today, "Rams, police differ on apology...

December 01, 2014

Let’s talk about a subminimum wage

I had written before, in the post-election postmorteming that everyone was doing, that the Republicans...

December 01, 2014

Things that are not a surprise, #2: Minimum wage increase are not free

From Friday's Tribune, "Minimum wage poses predicament for service agencies": As Democratic lawmakers renew their...

December 01, 2014

Things that are not a surprise, #1: Health insurance is not the complete solution

Remember VoucherCare? No -- not the pejorative label used by Democrats to criticize the Paul...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Back from the Mitten: For what it’s worth, Detroit is trying

Once again, a few impressions of Detroit after our visit there over Thanksgiving. Growing up,...

November 29, 2014

Detroit and Immigration

Just an observation from our travels in The Mitten:At a Kohl's, at Noodles & Company,...

November 27, 2014

Parking a link: “Racism without racists”

That's the title of a CNN piece about the state of racism and race relations...

November 27, 2014

Greetings from The Mitten!

You know, as family visits go, this falls in the category of "OK." Our first...

November 25, 2014

A reasonable accomodation – or one demand too many?

From today's Chicago Tribune:By the time she sits for the Illinois state bar exam in...

November 25, 2014

Forget red/blue states: the new cultural divide is betw. those who wear X-mas sweaters ironically and genuinely.

Such was my tweet yesterday, or rather, my reply to a tweet by Virginia Postrel,...

November 24, 2014

Update on Scouting

I had written about Scouting before, though, checking back, it was a very short piece....

November 22, 2014

The reality is: what’s under discussion is large-scale inflows of unskilled workers. What could go wrong?

Sorry for the long post title -- and the somewhat rambly post below, but I...

November 21, 2014

What now? A couple thoughts

As usual, I was mulling over the latest news while getting ready for the day...

November 20, 2014

So, Jane, what do you think of Obama’s legalization plan?

So now he's done it. Legalization for all, as long as you've been here five...

November 19, 2014

I miss John King Books

John King Books, the 4-story, former glove factory, used bookstore in Detroit, that is. Granted,...

November 19, 2014

Archbishop Cupich is pro-illegal-immigrant-legalization. Does it do any harm?

Earlier today, I blogged on the two homilies given by the new archbishop in Chicago,...

November 19, 2014

Day 1 of the new archbishop

Yesterday, Blase Cupich was formally installed as archbishop for the archdiocese of Chicago, and gave...

November 18, 2014

“The New Unpeople” – from The Economist

I'm trying to get my old posts labelled, which is very tedious. So as a...

November 17, 2014

Retreat Debrief

Dear [organizing team of the Christ Renews His Parish retreat I attended last weekend],I go...

November 14, 2014

Apparently, deportation isn’t the end of the world

(I'm not sure if this article is behind a paywall or not, but if so,...

November 13, 2014

How to avoid cultural appropriation

So I'm in the middle of reading and note-taking on a Harvard report on housing...