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December 2022
December 27, 2022
The Violinist vs. the Castaway, and an attempt at a new abortion metaphor
Who recalls the metaphor of the violinist on life support? This metaphor was created by...
December 27, 2022
The end of “boys who wear dresses”?
What does it mean to be "gender-creative"? To be "gender expansive"? To be "gender non-conforming"?...
September 2022
September 21, 2022
RIP, volunteerism
In 2018, I took over the job of "after-mass hospitality coordinator" from the prior volunteers,...
August 2022
August 21, 2022
“Jane the Actuary,” the actuary – an update on retirement writing and future paths
Regular readers of my page on retirement issues at Forbes will have noticed by now...
July 2022
July 31, 2022
New Job! A few personal updates
Longtime readers will know my story thus far: after blogging as a hobby for a...
June 2022
June 28, 2022
On the end of Roe, and why I’m not as celebratory as I would like to be
I keep revisiting this draft, which I started a long time ago, when the Supreme...
May 2022
May 17, 2022
Yes, you should object to saying “they”
So . . . turns out it's been a while since I've published a blog...
February 2022
February 07, 2022
1001 shifting justifications for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s mask policy
To start, a disclosure: a little under two years ago, I was most definitely an...
January 2022
January 31, 2022
On Maus, Book-Banning, and Common Sense
What is the most appropriate book for middle schoolers to read to learn about the...
January 04, 2022
Santorini (a vacation sewing project)
As regular readers may know, I am in the middle of a master's program in...
January 04, 2022
On her feast day: Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Latin Mass fuss
It's Elizabeth Ann Seton's feast day today. You know her -- first American-born saint, founder...
January 01, 2022
Three Cardinal Cupich Updates That Make The Story Look Even Worse
Earlier this week, Cardinal Cupich announced that henceforth the Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese...
December 2021
December 27, 2021
Is the cruelty the point? Cardinal Cupich’s mean-spirited anti-Latin Mass regulations
Yes, this irritates me enough to prod me to write after a long break. Well,...
August 2021
August 14, 2021
It’s 1975 again. Was it avoidable?
Hey, everyone -- I wrote the following on that first weekend when the collapse of...
August 11, 2021
Doing the COVID math
So I've been doing some COVID math -- the sort that isn't really good enough...
June 2021
June 25, 2021
Now on Twitter: Second-Guessing Reconstruction
Let's start with a one-paragraph review of the Reconstruction Era, shall we? In the period...
June 21, 2021
What does Juneteenth mean?
Yeah, this is another one of my little blog posts in which I write based...
April 2021
April 10, 2021
Remembering my father
I don't write as much at this blog as I used to, with other things...
February 2021
February 23, 2021
Biden’s immigration bill will not “fix” illegal immigration
Remember the George Bush immigration reform proposal in 2006, when he claimed that he would...
February 22, 2021
Why the Equality Act is actually much worse than the Bostock Court ruling
Remember back last summer when the Supreme Court determined that, by parsing the Civil Rights...
February 01, 2021
The Bee predicts the post-Trump GOP future
On January 6, the Babylon Bee posted an article with the headline: "Absolute Legend:...
January 2021
January 20, 2021
In which we learn that Biden isn’t a moderate after all
Let's start with immigration. Remember the "path to citizenship" and "earned legalization" promises? -- that...
January 06, 2021
A GRE postmortem
No, not an election postmortem -- I don't believe there is appropriate data that could...
December 2020
December 14, 2020
Let’s talk about ‘Dr.’ Biden
So there was a dust-up over the weekend about a Wall Street Journal opinion piece...
November 2020
November 21, 2020
Actually, workers on Food Stamps is a good thing
In the news yesterday, the Government Accounting Office released its report on the number and...
November 16, 2020
Let’s talk about inflation
So if I were a credentialed economist, or even had any specialized education in the...
November 10, 2020
On Trump, Electoral Fraud, and not believing your lying eyes
Yes, I'm going to talk about electoral fraud, and I use that phrase deliberately to...
November 06, 2020
On paywalls
Regular readers at Forbes will have noticed that, as of November 1st, there is now...
November 02, 2020
A rant about medieval hospitals
Ever have one of those days, when you just can't focus on the work at...
November 01, 2020
Some Comments on Equity vs. Equality
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