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2017-06-06T07:37:34-06:00

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More virtual candles

Last updated on: June 6, 2017 at 7:37 am By Jane the Actuary

You’re pretty much used to it by now: terrorists attack, whether with guns or bombs or knives or vehicles. And in response: candlelight vigils. Facebook profile frames. “Pray for X” hashtags. And calls not to “overreact,” telling us that the large majority of murders in the U.S. are still your garden variety gang crime in cities. Plus, perpetual squabbles over “Islam”, with one faction claiming that violence is intrinsically a part of the religion and the other side that, by... Read more

2017-06-03T16:51:03-06:00

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We’re getting multi-culturalism all wrong

Last updated on: June 3, 2017 at 4:51 pm By Jane the Actuary

What follows is, ahem, a load of covfefe, but it’s something I was thinking about subsequent to my post yesterday about American culture and international agreements. If you think about “diversity” and “multiculturalism” and reports of the same at schools and universities, you probably land on things such as: Celebrations of the traditional music, dance, and food of a given non-American society or an American subculture, Acceptance/tolerance or welcoming/celebration of people with different skin color, facial features, and accents (whether... Read more

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2017-06-06T17:32:57-06:00

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Climate, Culture, Principles, And “In the Company of Syria”

Last updated on: June 6, 2017 at 5:32 pm By Jane the Actuary

We want an Agreement, a Treaty, to have a clear path, a practical impact, and enforceable consequences, when much of the rest of the world just doesn't care. Read more

2017-05-27T11:06:18-06:00

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Wanted: fundraising advice

Last updated on: May 27, 2017 at 11:06 am By Jane the Actuary

Here’s a request that’s got nothing to do with politics, or Catholicism, or any of my usual topics: fundraising. Our Cub Scout pack is looking at trying a different fundraiser than the usual popcorn; specifically, we’re looking into World’s Finest Chocolate — that is, rather than selling bags of popcorn for $10 – $25, they’d be selling candy at $1 or $2, by taking cases of candy bars door-to-door or via site-sales (e.g., in front of the grocery store). I’m... Read more

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2017-05-27T07:39:46-06:00

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Fact-checking California’s Single Payer proposal

Last updated on: May 27, 2017 at 7:39 am By Jane the Actuary

In the news today, the California State Senate passed its universal healthcare bill. Here’s the website promoting the proposal. What does it promise? It implies that every type of medical service is covered: Covered benefits will include services to keep people healthy—mentally and physically—as well as those services that diagnose and treat diseases. In addition to emergency services, surgeries, and hospital stays, services such as home health care, day care and hospice are covered. Vision and dental care are also... Read more

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2017-05-26T15:32:42-06:00

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How Does a Pope Greet a President?

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 3:32 pm By Jane the Actuary

A part of our contemporary American culture is that one smiles for photographs or upon meeting someone. Read more

2017-05-24T08:28:14-06:00

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The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad budget “cuts”

Last updated on: May 24, 2017 at 8:28 am By Jane the Actuary

Yes, you’ve heard by now: Trumps’ budget cuts government spending for the needy and will probably cause everyone to starve to death. Except that details are surprisingly difficult to come by. After a bit of searching, I landed on a useful Washington Post article, which started by listing the cuts: a 29% drop in food stamps, a 19% drop in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a 17% drop in Medicaid, etc., and — for all that the progressives in my... Read more

2017-05-23T09:32:03-06:00

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“[His] death cannot go by with no meaning at all.”

Last updated on: May 23, 2017 at 9:32 am By Jane the Actuary

The front-page story in today’s paper: “Naperville teen’s senseless tragedy: ‘They scared him to death’.” It reports on a Naperville teenager, Corey Walgren, who committed suicide after being confronted by a school official and a police officer over a recording he made, and reportedly shared with others, of a sexual encounter — the girl on the recording had made the complaint, and, as it happened, the video was not viewable, so that it was, functionally, an audio recording only (whether she... Read more

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2017-05-22T07:39:43-06:00

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Wishful thinking isn’t enough: the demise of tracking at Illinois high schools

Last updated on: May 22, 2017 at 7:39 am By Jane the Actuary

Let me tell you about the course offerings at my son’s high school: For math, there’s a sequence that starts with Honors Geometry for freshmen and proceeds to Honors Advanced Algebra, Honors Pre-Calc, and then Calculus. Within this there are two sub-tracks that lead to a version of Calculus that prepares kids for the AB (single-variable) AP exam, or an alternate version that prepares kids for the BC (multivariate) AP exam. Another sequence leads from 9th grade algebra to “advanced algebra” in... Read more

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2017-05-18T07:37:41-06:00

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Chicago celebrates a terrorist

Last updated on: May 18, 2017 at 7:37 am By Jane the Actuary

Yes, indeed, while on the one hand Chicago is fretting about violence on its streets, the city is about to celebrate an authentic, unrepentant terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Lopez was considered a top leader of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, an ultranationalist Puerto Rican group that claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings at government buildings, department stores, banks and restaurants in New York, Chicago, Washington and Puerto Rico during the... Read more

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