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August 2018

August 01, 2018
In mid-July, Senator Kamala Harris of California introduced the "Rent Relief Act" and was immediately...

July 2018

July 30, 2018
So now Cardinal McCarrick is now just, well, I guess, Mr. McCarrick.  The Washington Post,...
July 25, 2018
Not long ago, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., was accused of...
July 20, 2018
So I was doing some digging around on what our archbishop is up to, being...
July 19, 2018
From the Chicago Tribune, "Defrocked priest committed indefinitely to state facility for sex offenders." Arguably...
July 17, 2018
Personally, I just want the whole thing to go away. Does Trump's refusal to condemn...
July 16, 2018
Some time ago, back in 2013, in fact, I linked to a report on a...
July 15, 2018
One thing is clear:  Ross Douthat does not like Pope Francis.  He believes that his...
July 12, 2018
So per my last post, we spent a long weekend/short week up in Wisconsin, including...
July 12, 2018
So it's been a while since I've typed up one of my book summaries.  I...
July 10, 2018
First, some personal context:  I breastfed my three boys.  I wasn't very good at it. ...
July 09, 2018
My oldest child just turned 18.  That means that I've been dealing with the question...
July 08, 2018
So we just got back from a brief vacation -- because even though I'm not...
July 05, 2018
Here's an item in the Illinois state constitution that fiscal conservatives don't like:  Article XIII,...
July 04, 2018
You remember Marbury v. Madison, don't you?  Whether you learned about it in your government...

June 2018

June 28, 2018
So my son is going to be in 10th grade next year, and as usual,...
June 27, 2018
In today's Chicago Tribune:  "Notre Dame, feds are sued in contraception complaint" (or "Students sue...
June 27, 2018
It's comical -- to an extent. Here in Chicago, aldermen may not exercise much power...
June 22, 2018
As a reminder for occasional readers, I quit my job, with my last day of...
June 21, 2018
If nothing else, the entire debate around "kids in cages" has made clear some attitudes...
June 20, 2018
Longtime readers will know that we are a sailing family.  We have a 25' Catalina...
June 18, 2018
No, I am not a proponent of unnecessarily separating children from their parents. At the...
June 18, 2018
This is another in that category of posts in which I gripe about a thing...
June 15, 2018
Here are a smattering of thoughts which I had had good intentions of blogging about...
June 11, 2018
"Ask a North Korean" refers to two things:  first, a feature at nknews.org, and second,...
June 11, 2018
Readers of a certain age may remember the splash Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners made...
June 08, 2018
Every now and again, I revisit the issue of suicide.  I am hardly an expert...
June 06, 2018
Omaha Beach.  It's almost become our national origin story, the heroism of American soldiers marching...
June 02, 2018
It's election time.  And that means that Illinois politicians -- the legislators in the General...
June 01, 2018
Here's my latest recipe:  a lamb and pasta skillet dish.  This was inspired by a...
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