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2015-11-29T19:06:01-06:00

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Why did Dear shoot? We may never know.

Last updated on: November 29, 2015 at 7:06 pm By Jane the Actuary

Information is beginning to make its way around the internet about Robert Lewis Dear, who killed three in and around a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs on Friday. According to news reports, such as NBC News, he moved to Colorado last year from North Carolina, where he lived in a shack in the woods, unabomber-style, with no electricity or running water. The site reports, James Russell, who lived near Dear in the North Carolina mountains, said if Dear did... Read more

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2015-11-29T16:12:54-06:00

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Wanted: an adventskranz

Last updated on: November 29, 2015 at 4:12 pm By Jane the Actuary

Yes, sure, in the United States, there are advent wreaths. I bought one from a religious bookstore many years ago — a resin circular candleholder with a celtic design, like this: now available online at TheCatholicCompany.com, and it’s fine as far as it goes, but it’s not the same as in Germany, where a typical wreath looked something like this: (image from weinachtsgeschenke2014.com) that is, with greenery — and, here’s the kicker, you don’t have to go to a religious... Read more

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2015-11-28T21:49:30-06:00

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Spike Lee’s sex strike: right solution, wrong problem

Last updated on: November 28, 2015 at 9:49 pm By Jane the Actuary

Spike Lee’s new movie, Chi-Raq, models itself after Lysistrata and its “sex strike” plotline, except that instead of ancient Greek women trying to put an end to the Peloponesian War, it’s inner-city black Chicago women trying to end a gang war. And in that context, Lee said, in an interview, “I think that a sex-strike could really work on college campuses where there’s an abundance of sexual harassment and date rape.” Here’s an article from The Atlantic, by who else... Read more

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2015-11-26T09:17:59-06:00

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Last updated on: November 26, 2015 at 9:17 am By Jane the Actuary

Open-thread time here. What’s for dinner? How are the folks? (Or the kids?) No advice for dealing with Crazy Republican Uncles, or Crazy Vox-inspired kids here. Is this really an issue, anyway? Surely everyone has the good sense to just change the subject, right? Read more

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2015-11-24T08:04:09-06:00

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Why Trump? A facebook conversation

Last updated on: November 24, 2015 at 8:04 am By Jane the Actuary

I’m copy/pasting text below rather than just the image, but this is what I wrote on my personal facebook page, and a set of responses I got: ME: Judgement-free question: who do you support for president at this point, and why? Particularly interested in what Trump supporters have to say. Friend #1: You’re making a big assumption that Trump supporters know how to write. Friend #2: Presidential politics is one of many topics that are never judgement free on Facebook.... Read more

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2016-11-07T09:33:04-06:00

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Girl Boy Scouts? 6 Thoughts

Last updated on: November 7, 2016 at 9:33 am By Jane the Actuary

That’s the latest, per Ann Althouse, linking to a report in the New York Times about a scouting troop in California, composed of five girls who have officially asked to join the Boy Scouts. The situation is a bit different than prior reports of individual girls; here is a group of friends who sought membership: The Unicorns began to consider themselves Boy Scouts last fall, after they enrolled in a skills-building course, Learning for Life, that is affiliated with the organization... Read more

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2016-08-14T12:44:17-06:00

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Refugee-related hypothetical question of the day

Last updated on: August 14, 2016 at 12:44 pm By Jane the Actuary

We’re being told repeatedly that our failure to take in Jews from Germany seeking to immigrate in the years prior to World War II “proves” that we should now be taking Syrians in. It’s not actually as simple as that: the Syrians we’re talking about are not presently in mortal danger, but waiting in refugee camps. Many of these, too, were not fleeing ISIS specifically, but Assad and the civil war in general. The ones in mortal danger are in... Read more

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2015-11-22T16:20:44-06:00

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Modernizing the “works of mercy” list?

Last updated on: November 22, 2015 at 4:20 pm By Jane the Actuary

Here’s the website for The Cradle Fund, an organization which provides direct aid to refugees from Syria and Iraq, to which we donated last Christmas, and likely will again. And here’s an article about a Toronto couple that used the money they otherwise would have spent on a lavish wedding, on providing for a refugee family resettling to their area instead. But, mind you, this was Canada. In the United States, the notion of “sponsoring” a refugee family — as was... Read more

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2015-11-21T19:57:29-06:00

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From the library: The Almost Nearly Perfect People, by Michael Booth

Last updated on: November 21, 2015 at 7:57 pm By Jane the Actuary

This is a very meaty book, and I’ve been meaning to write about it for quite a while. Quick bottom line: a British author and Danish transplant writes about the five Nordic countries/cultures: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden. Of Denmark: a cultural prefernce for hygge, or, loosely translated, coziness. Jante Law – a cultural pressure not to believe you’re better than anyone else, or to act in ways that lead others to think that you think so. It’s more than... Read more

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2015-11-20T20:44:17-06:00

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Long Week, part 2

Last updated on: November 20, 2015 at 8:44 pm By Jane the Actuary

Wake, funeral, wake, funeral, band concert. That’s been my week. Well, of course, this doesn’t tell the whole story. Sunday was the wake for our friend Ray (yeah, my mom, who’s never met him, said she got teary-eyed watching the linked video). At his wife’s request, my husband organized the Boy Scouts performing a flag ceremony with a special addition: besides the usual recitation of the Scout Law (“A Scout is kind, courteous, brave, cheerful, thrifty, reverent, etc.”), they added, recited... Read more

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