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So this past weekend -- well, not really a weekend, actually, but from Thursday through...

So I'm trying to stay away from Trump-news, knowing that (a) I personally cannot play...

An article I previewed yesterday . . . You've likely seen this reported elsewhere by...

So this morning, I couldn't let a tweet on China go by without replying, as...

Regular readers will notice that I haven't been blogging as frequently lately, and that's partly...

This past weekend, it rained, and was unseasonably cold, and was really kind of stinky. ...

  Did Trump demand a quid pro quo by holding up aid to Ukraine in...

So it turns out I have a jumble of things to write about, and I'm...

Bernie Sanders is making promises. Yes, sure, all the Democratic presidential candidates are chock full...

The other day, a tweet came across my feed, in the form of a retweet:...

So this is the sort of post that is less than ideal because at least...

So I realize I've been a bit sparse in my blogging, and wanted to give...

Yes, I know, I'm seeing lots of headlines of articles that I'm not reading, revisiting...

Here's the story, repeated over and over again: Up until now, would-be permanent residents were...

Readers, as much as this blog has been a bit neglected lately (coming up soon:...

The one-word answer is "no." The three-word version, "eh, probably not." And for more words...

So, look, I am going write this with virtually no effort to source my claims...

  Here's an article at TheDeacon's Bench that caught my eye:  "Revolt: parishioners protest changes...

Folks, I've been wanting to write about the events of the past week, namely, the...

Some years ago, we tried to take the train from our suburb into Chicago for...

16 Later, two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 17 One woman said: “By...

By "the Bee," I mean, for those for whom it's escaped their notice, the Babylon...

Here's a "scandal" reported by ProPublica Illinois yesterday: "Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their...

So the time since our return from vacation has been taken up by a lot...

Day 14:  back to Rome So I had been surprised that we needed to get...

Day 13:  Livorno. This is a strange sort of stop -- the port of Livorno...

Day 12:  Naples So the original plan was to go to Pompeii, and the only...

Day 10:  Valetta. This was the other half-day, as we didn't dock until 1:00.  Annoyingly,...

Day 8:  Mykonos. It's all about expectations, in the end.  I had low expectations for...

Day 7:  Athens. So I'll start off with a couple planning mistakes: First, we had...