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November 2018

November 09, 2018
If you, like me, have been meaning to check in on how Germany's doing with...
November 08, 2018
This is an article from the Tribune a week ago that I'd been meaning to write...
November 07, 2018
Very few things about this election were a surprise. The Democrats took the House -...
November 06, 2018
That is, don't pull that (mostly metaphorical) lever for any candidate in any race where...
November 04, 2018
Finally got around to seeing this movie today.  Here are a couple random thoughts: It...
November 02, 2018
Here's an article I'm going to share with you because I saw it on twitter...
November 02, 2018
Here's a sort of pre-Election Day post meant as a conversation-starter. Consider the rhetoric you've...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
Yup. My youngest is now in 6th grade.  Inspired by youtube videos he'd been watching,...
October 31, 2018
Yeah, a more conventional blogpost title would be something like, "what you should think about...
October 27, 2018
It's Saturday, midafternoon, and the latest reports are that the shooter at the Tree of...
October 26, 2018
As you know, readers, when I'm not blogging here, I'm writing at Forbes.com.  My latest...
October 25, 2018
"Millennials are awful and they never volunteer and they think travel sports is more important...
October 23, 2018
How do we fight climate change?  My money's on carbon capture (though I know there's...
October 21, 2018
I'm afraid I owe my readers an apology, so: I'm sorry. Here's why: I've never...
October 19, 2018
What should we make of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist-activist? Here are...
October 16, 2018
In the news today (in this case, via AP):  "US wants drug prices in TV...
October 13, 2018
So I'm in the middle of reading The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg...
October 12, 2018
So here's the deal:  when the Synod of Bishops first started, I had expected that...
October 10, 2018
I previously wrote about the first half of the book Divine Renovation by Fr. James...
October 08, 2018
A bit of context:  last week, the Archdiocese of Chicago hosted a "summit" for all...
October 07, 2018
Here's an, er, interesting outcome of yesterday's Kavanaugh confirmation vote:  liberals are, at least on...
October 03, 2018
Two items in the news today: first, a report that, whaddayaknow, Rauner's ad about Pritzker's...
October 02, 2018
Yes, I know, the answer is, "because it's exposing how evil the Other Side is."...

September 2018

September 30, 2018
With apologies for the lack of citations, here is a list of things that can...
September 28, 2018
First, some marijuana-use statistics, from a 2017 Marist poll, as featured originally in a Washington...
September 26, 2018
Three items from my twitter feed. Item 1:  the Pope. On CNN the other day,...
September 24, 2018
Over the weekend, we had a new report, that the last person at the party...
September 22, 2018
It's a quiet weekend so I pulled out a book I had picked up at...
September 22, 2018
It's the fifteenth Ordinary General Synod of Bishops since these began post-Vatican II, and it...
September 21, 2018
So the Kavanaugh assault accusation story got a bit stranger today, as his accuser has...
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