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August 21, 2019
What the heck is up with the “public charge” rule change?
Here's the story, repeated over and over again: Up until now, would-be permanent residents were...
August 21, 2019
Guest post: When Liberal Catholicism Becomes Toxic, or, Why I’m Muting You For Now
Readers, as much as this blog has been a bit neglected lately (coming up soon:...
August 15, 2019
Is Trump really causing premature births?
The one-word answer is "no." The three-word version, "eh, probably not." And for more words...
August 13, 2019
The real cost of cheap chicken
So, look, I am going write this with virtually no effort to source my claims...
August 11, 2019
Portland Parish Protests POC Priest
Here's an article at TheDeacon's Bench that caught my eye: "Revolt: parishioners protest changes...
August 10, 2019
When Anti-Nazi-ism Goes Too Far
Folks, I've been wanting to write about the events of the past week, namely, the...
August 05, 2019
Kenosha Tall Ships, August 5, 2019
Some years ago, we tried to take the train from our suburb into Chicago for...
July 2019
July 30, 2019
Snopes, The Bee, and fact-checking as a power play
By "the Bee," I mean, for those for whom it's escaped their notice, the Babylon...
July 30, 2019
The Great Guardianship/Financial Aid Scandal of 2019 (or not)
Here's a "scandal" reported by ProPublica Illinois yesterday: "Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their...
July 26, 2019
What captures your imagination?
So the time since our return from vacation has been taken up by a lot...
July 21, 2019
Vacation 2019, part eight: back to Rome
Day 14: back to Rome So I had been surprised that we needed to get...
July 20, 2019
Vacation 2019, part seven: Pisa and Lucca (Livorno)
Day 13: Livorno. This is a strange sort of stop -- the port of Livorno...
July 19, 2019
Vacation 2019, part six: Naples
Day 12: Naples So the original plan was to go to Pompeii, and the only...
July 18, 2019
Vacation 2019, part five: Valetta, Messina, and some onboard pics
Day 10: Valetta. This was the other half-day, as we didn't dock until 1:00. Annoyingly,...
July 17, 2019
Vacation 2019, part four: Mykonos and Chania
Day 8: Mykonos. It's all about expectations, in the end. I had low expectations for...
July 16, 2019
Vacation 2019, part three: Athens
Day 7: Athens. So I'll start off with a couple planning mistakes: First, we had...
July 15, 2019
Vacation 2019, part two: Santorini
Continuing with my vacation narrative: Day 4: the start of the cruise. We took our...
July 14, 2019
Vacation 2019, part one: Montreal and Rome
So I promised, upon getting back from our vacation, that I would write about it. ...
July 06, 2019
Is Immigration Restrictionism on The Sin List?
That's the gist of an argument among fellow Patheos writers that seems to have transpired...
July 05, 2019
American (and Greek, and German) exceptionalism
Remember the dust-up about whether Obama believed in "American exceptionalism" -- that is, as shorthand...
July 03, 2019
Looking for a 4Chan mole
You've no doubt read about the latest nonsense in claimed "offensive" symbols: that Nike was...
July 02, 2019
What I learned on my cruise
So, other than a pre-scheduled post last week, the blogging has been quiet as of...
June 2019
June 23, 2019
Back in time to February 1970
So regular readers will know I've been engaged in the process of working with my...
June 15, 2019
No, there is no “right to a baby box”
SMDH, as they say. Let me start by telling you about the "family bill of...
June 06, 2019
Are the men of D-Day lost forever?
Ever since Tom Brokaw coined the term the "Greatest Generation" to refer to the men...
May 2019
May 29, 2019
Just how far are we willing to “trust women”?
"Trust women." That's what we're told, time and again. We should "trust" that there is...
May 21, 2019
Parsing Mayor Lightfoot’s Inaugural Address
Is it an inaugural address if it's given by a mayor rather than a president? ...
May 19, 2019
The Game of Thrones insight you’ve all been waiting for
Plus, a link and three questions. First, the insight: GOT is a massive spectacle. It's...
May 17, 2019
The statistics on abortion and social class
So in my prior post, I observed that the conventional wisdom that "the only people...
May 17, 2019
Who are the real pro-lifers?
One reads a lot, these days, about what it means to be "pro-life" -- and...
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