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2024-07-31T22:32:37-06:00

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Six “Blasphemous Olympics Opening Ceremony” Comments

Last updated on: July 31, 2024 at 10:32 pm By Jane the Actuary

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By now everyone has read about the controversial Olympic Opening Ceremony scene last week, so I’m not going to provide the full details here, but I nonetheless Have Thoughts About It. Yes, it was definitely a reference to the Last Supper, though it was a dynamic scene rather than a still image, so that it shifted from “Last Supper” to “Greek Gods” to “catwalk.” But participants in the scene perceived of what they were doing as exactly this, with the... Read more

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secularism

2024-07-30T22:15:41-06:00

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Crazy cat ladies, etc.

Last updated on: July 30, 2024 at 10:15 pm By Jane the Actuary

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So JD Vance’s criticism of childless women, or crazy cat ladies, went viral over the past week, with various pundits claiming this was disqualifying in the election for Vice President. His claim, quite simply, was that childless women were less able to think about the long-term future, than mothers whose perspective was influenced by their concern with their children. Will those childless women, and the child-ful women who support their literal or figurative sisters, rise up in support of Kamala... Read more

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fertility rate

2024-06-16T18:18:48-06:00

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Is Cardinal Cupich a “prayer-denialist”?

Last updated on: June 16, 2024 at 6:18 pm By Jane the Actuary

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A term I just coined, of course. But the Catholic Church has, for millennia, in fact, believed that to pray is to do something good for others, not just a form of personal entertainment such as reading a novel, nor a means to an end like taking classes to get a promotion. That belief has been fundamental to the very idea of monastic life. Yes, monks “saved civilization” through the scriptoria, and in American history actual cloistered religious life was... Read more

2024-06-16T17:13:33-06:00

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Childhood mysteries I will never solve

Last updated on: June 16, 2024 at 5:13 pm By Jane the Actuary

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Dad has passed. Mom has dementia. At this point it is severe enough that she says only a few words, but it’s been quite a while since she has been able to say particularly much and even longer still since she has been able to tell us much about the past. And this means there are questions about my childhood I will never know the answer to. Exhibit 1: my childhood bedspread. Yes, what you see here is a bedspread... Read more

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2024-05-22T22:03:56-06:00

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From the River. . . to the Yearbook

Last updated on: May 22, 2024 at 10:03 pm By Jane the Actuary

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More stellar reporting from the Tribune: in a photo spread about a multicultural event, students at Bartlett High School are pictured holding a Palestinian flag as well as two signs, one reading “in our hundreds, in our millions, we are all Palestinian,” and the other, “From the River to the Sea” as well as Arabic text which, according to the students’ change.org petition, translates to “Palestine is Arab.” Upon discovering this, school staff paused distribution of the yearbook in order... Read more

2024-05-22T20:48:11-06:00

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The SAT, ESL, and the demise of the Chicago Tribune

Last updated on: May 22, 2024 at 8:48 pm By Jane the Actuary

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Yes, I still subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, though I switched to the digital only option a while back, and I read the paper digitally relatively infrequently, but one opinion piece caught my eye from a bit over a week ago: “Why isn’t the SAT being translated into other languages?” by Gina Caneva, a librarian at East Leyden High School, in Franklin Park, a suburb a few miles west of Chicago, whose previous work experience includes 8 years as a... Read more

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2024-04-28T14:18:16-06:00

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On Being Family (Un)Friendly

Last updated on: April 28, 2024 at 2:18 pm By Jane the Actuary

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Tim Carney has a new book out, Family Unfriendly, with, as usual for books these days, a subtitle that explains what the book is about: “How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be.” And, in an effort to think more about the book before it goes back to the library, I’m going to blog about it. Before I get into the content, a brief why-it-matters: having parents who are stressed and unhappy matters for a... Read more

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2024-04-28T12:53:26-06:00

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A visibility day (or week or month) we actually need

Last updated on: April 28, 2024 at 12:53 pm By Jane the Actuary

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So, as it happens, 15 years ago, a transgender activist declared March 31st to be “Transgender Day of Visibility,” with the date chosen to spread the various “days” of transgender/LGBTetc. acknowledgement/awareness/celebration (as proclaimed by activists) throughout the year. When Biden came into office, he/his staff elevated this to official recognition through a proclamation, which went relatively unnoticed by the “outside” world until the proclamation was issued on Good Friday and the day itself coincided with Easter, and a heck of... Read more

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2024-03-11T21:25:41-06:00

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The Pope, war, and surrender

Last updated on: March 11, 2024 at 9:25 pm By Jane the Actuary

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So it’s Sunday night and I just clicked “publish” on a post I’d been working on, off and on, in which I observed that Pope Francis had made some, well, questionable remarks on the issue of “just war.” To repeat/tweak those comments: I find the Pope’s comments on just war to be genuinely concerning. There was a statement somewhere about the Pope disapproving of the idea of the “just war” and stating, in the context of the war in Gaza,... Read more

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2024-03-10T21:05:09-06:00

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How smart is the Pope, really?

Last updated on: March 10, 2024 at 9:05 pm By Jane the Actuary

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Over and over again, the Pope says things which make “traditional”/ “orthodox”/ “conservative” Catholics want to bang their heads against the wall. It appears that he is deviously attempting to change church doctrine, one step at a time, that he is acting as a dictator, that he is cruel and vicious towards traditionalists. But what if what’s really happening is that he just isn’t that bright? Sure, his writing “sounds smart” but in my view (though I acknowledge that his... Read more

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