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2019-07-17T09:00:50-06:00

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Vacation 2019, part four: Mykonos and Chania

Last updated on: July 17, 2019 at 9:00 am By Jane the Actuary

Day 8: Mykonos. It’s all about expectations, in the end. I had low expectations for Myknonos, which was described as over-touristed every bit as much as Santorini, and full of rich people. But it was nice, and the streets were not nearly so jammed as I had expected, and once you leave the main thoroughfares they were rather quiet. Despite the description of it as an enormous resort (which was likely more true of the actual resorts and beaches, which... Read more

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Vacation 2019

2019-07-15T09:06:48-06:00

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Vacation 2019, part three: Athens

Last updated on: July 15, 2019 at 9:06 am By Jane the Actuary

Day 7: Athens. So I’ll start off with a couple planning mistakes: First, we had looked at maps and said, “we don’t need no stinkin’ tourist hop-on hop-off bus; we can walk to the metro stop at the port and exit at the Acropolis.” But it turned out that this particular hop-on hop-off bus would have been a good idea because it would have come out as far as where our ship was docked and it was a longer walk... Read more

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Vacation 2019

2019-07-15T09:06:00-06:00

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Vacation 2019, part two: Santorini

Last updated on: July 15, 2019 at 9:06 am By Jane the Actuary

Continuing with my vacation narrative: Day 4: the start of the cruise. We took our time in the morning, with breakfast and general lazing around until it was checkout time, because the earliest arrival on the cruise ship was 12:30. We then hauled our suitcases back to the train station, took a train to the port, and cast about for a way to get from the port train station to the cruise ship terminal itself; we had figured we could... Read more

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Vacation 2019

2019-07-14T21:47:49-06:00

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Vacation 2019, part one: Montreal and Rome

Last updated on: July 14, 2019 at 9:47 pm By Jane the Actuary

So I promised, upon getting back from our vacation, that I would write about it. And, yes, you, dear readers, may not be particularly interested in it in any event, but I wanted to pull together some of my favorite pictures and my observations. As a side note, yes, we did take pictures with some combination of my husband, my son, and/or myself in them, but I’m choosing not to post these on the blog. Day 1: Montreal. Here’s the... Read more

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Vacation 2019

2019-07-06T14:06:34-06:00

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Is Immigration Restrictionism on The Sin List?

Last updated on: July 6, 2019 at 2:06 pm By Jane the Actuary

That’s the gist of an argument among fellow Patheos writers that seems to have transpired while I was on vacation. And I’m not going to dig into the specific comments any of the authors made, not least because that requires acquainting myself with the full back-and-forth rather than the single article I’ve seen, but also because I don’t like the business of taking apart a single author without knowing how influential the article is (and, yes, Patheos discontinued “share” counts... Read more

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illegal immigration

2019-07-05T06:29:20-06:00

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American (and Greek, and German) exceptionalism

Last updated on: July 5, 2019 at 6:29 am By Jane the Actuary

Remember the dust-up about whether Obama believed in “American exceptionalism” — that is, as shorthand for whether he believed there was something uniquely special about the United States? It came about after a series of comments culminating in an interview in which he said, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Now, he goes on to affirm that which is special about the United... Read more

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American exceptionalism

2019-07-03T21:56:21-06:00

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Looking for a 4Chan mole

Last updated on: July 3, 2019 at 9:56 pm By Jane the Actuary

You’ve no doubt read about the latest nonsense in claimed “offensive” symbols: that Nike was going to have released, in time for Independence Day, a shoe with the Betsy Ross flag, that is, with thirteen stars in a circle, but was instructed by Colin Kaepernick not to do so because that flag was both oppressive in its own right because slavery existed at the time of its creation and because it had been “appropriated” by White Supremacist groups. Writing at... Read more

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2019-07-02T09:05:28-06:00

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What I learned on my cruise

Last updated on: July 2, 2019 at 9:05 am By Jane the Actuary

So, other than a pre-scheduled post last week, the blogging has been quiet as of late, because I’ve been on vacation, namely, a cruise vacation, for the first time, in Italy and Greece. (I’m still jet lagged as I write this.) And I want to write a bit about this, even if in the form of journaling so that when I get old and my memory goes to pot, I can reread it, and I’ll share the photos that I... Read more

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2019-06-15T14:31:39-06:00

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Back in time to February 1970

Last updated on: June 15, 2019 at 2:31 pm By Jane the Actuary

So regular readers will know I’ve been engaged in the process of working with my siblings to clean out my parents’ house. In the basement, among all manner of boxes, were shelves full of fabric, half-finished craft projects, undone needlepoint and crewel kits, and a banker’s box full of unmade patterns. There was even a box with the afghan on this magazine cover, half-made from the kit Mom had ordered. And there were a selection of women’s magazines from the... Read more

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2019-06-15T08:27:49-06:00

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No, there is no “right to a baby box”

Last updated on: June 15, 2019 at 8:27 am By Jane the Actuary

SMDH, as they say. Let me start by telling you about the “family bill of rights” as declared by senator and presidential candidate Kristin Gillibrand, which dates to late May but only came to my attention last week as a result of an Institute for Family Studies blogpost. She proposes the following five items in a Medium blogpost: “1. The right to a safe and healthy pregnancy”, which sounds unobjectionable enough. “2. The right to give birth or adopt a... Read more

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