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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
Longtime readers will know that I post at this site much less often than used...
October 2020
October 23, 2020
545 separated kids? Why that’s not what it seems
If Donald Trump was trying to make corruption charges stick on Biden (the media's refusal...
October 23, 2020
It’s debate time!
It's the second presidential debate! And here are my comments, live-blog style. Scroll down to...
October 22, 2020
Covid “Science” Update – two new infuriating reports
Yes, "science" in scare-quotes, because of two events which concern public understanding of science, or...
October 15, 2020
ACB, the ACA, and Constitutionalism
Are you watching the hearings? Here's a rant. Some of this I've likely said before...
September 2020
September 30, 2020
Debate Post-Mortem
You know, it started out being funny, watching the debate turn into a shouting match....
September 27, 2020
Covid vaccines and self-fulfilling prophesies
Will you get vaccinated against covid? According to a variety of polling data, Americans aren't...
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