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June 2018

June 01, 2018
So I quit my job yesterday. To clarify, I quit the job that I've had...

May 2018

May 29, 2018
It's graduation season, and hence we have, from the New York Times, the report:  "Catholic...
May 22, 2018
The Daily Mail reports:  "Condoms must now be made available to 'all participants' at the...
May 20, 2018
You know the quote, don't you? I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect...
May 16, 2018
Is what's going on in Gaza at the moment a "protest"?  No.   Protestors march around...
May 12, 2018
An update on Starbucks:  as part of its resolution to the bad publicity in the...
May 11, 2018
  The second, from Channnn @Chan_the_world (and, no, I can't figure out why this time around,...
May 08, 2018
The New York Times:  "The Scene Inside the Met Gala."  Also, "What Is the Met...
May 03, 2018
Yes, it's taken me a while to start typing about Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old British...

April 2018

April 25, 2018
Back a couple weeks ago, a new poll showed that Americans displayed, well, undesirably-low levels...
April 23, 2018
Today the AP reported on Cub Scout packs which have plunged into inviting girls to...
April 21, 2018
I try not to do too many of the "take a look at this terrible article"...
April 18, 2018
A Seinfeldian protest, if you will, that is, in reference to the TV show that...
April 17, 2018
Last week, two black men were arrested at a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks, after a dispute...
April 14, 2018
So I was shopping today . . . and, well, you could tell that Greek...
April 12, 2018
The headline is dramatic:  66% of Millennials don't know what Auschwitz was, and 22% don't...
April 11, 2018
I'm reading about Social Capital and looking to write something about the issue as it...
April 09, 2018
Some time ago, I wrote about the shocking statistics on declining enrollment at Illinois' "regional"...
April 07, 2018
For those of you who don't follow All The Right People on twitter, former National...
April 01, 2018
This is not an Easter post.  It's not even a Easter Vigil post.  I long...

March 2018

March 27, 2018
Earlier today, I saw a snippet of a speech by Emma Gonzalez, emerging gun control...
March 22, 2018
This is not something that I'm promoting widely in this space, but I wanted to...
March 21, 2018
For Illinoisians and others following the race: Rauner wins, but with so close a margin...
March 18, 2018
Hotly anticipated . . . the Jane the Actuary endorsements in this Tuesday's Illinois primary....
March 15, 2018
No, those aren't "my" Cub Scouts; these are just generic public-domain Cub Scouts.  I didn't...
March 14, 2018
The voters have spoken, and by the narrowest of margins, Democrat Conor Lamb will be...
March 12, 2018
It's a new Instant Pot recipe!  Or, rather, I made a few tweaks to one...
March 09, 2018
In the news today, Toys R Us is most likely liquidating its US operations.  Bloomberg...
March 08, 2018
It's International Women's Day today - an occasion that Americans were pretty indifferent to, in...
March 07, 2018
Readers will recall that I am the proud(ish) owner of a new minivan -- and...
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