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March 2018

March 04, 2018
The lawyers at the Boy Scouts of America are working over time. First, as a...
March 03, 2018
In her first Washington Post column: Referencing Delta's elimination of a group discount for the...
March 03, 2018
Miscellaneous items from my twitter feed: Are Muslim immigrants to Europe mission territory? From Church...
March 02, 2018
Here are just a few words of commentary with the aim of inviting discussion: On...

February 2018

February 27, 2018
The graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are striking.  Not the STEM...
February 26, 2018
Yes, I know, rhetorical questions generally have the answer, "no," and in this case, I'm...
February 24, 2018
It's all over the news lately -- or all over twitter, anyway:  the reports cheering...
February 24, 2018
Here's the background for everyone fortunate enough to live elsewhere: Illinois' primary election is coming...
February 23, 2018
We tend to explain "helicopter parents," or, as I labelled them previously, "tight-leash parents," with...
February 22, 2018
Turns out, the Germans are actually pretty dang similar to the Dutchies, as profiled in...
February 22, 2018
So I have a number of posts in the queue, so to speak, whether as...
February 21, 2018
I don't really have much to say on the issue of mass shootings. I don't...
February 20, 2018
So. . . I got this book (an older one, published in 2007 and deaccessioned...
February 19, 2018
Or, rather, Black Panther thoughts, but I can't format a post title -- the point being,...
February 19, 2018
The title is, of course, a play on Jesus's statement, "the poor you will always...
February 13, 2018
CNN reported on the Obama portrait unveiling yesterday, but it's not yet available in the public...
February 13, 2018
This is a very short item but something I came across the other day that...
February 13, 2018
As reported in various sources, including Politico, the Trump administration in its latest budget has...
February 12, 2018
Yesterday I spent too much time summarizing Teresa Ghilarducci's Rescuing Retirement, in which she promotes...
February 11, 2018
That's the claim, anyway.  She's been flogging her "Guaranteed Retirement Account" concept for longer than...
February 09, 2018
I've been sitting on a Brookings paper that argues that we need to take a...
February 08, 2018
Something that caught my attention via twitter today:  a proposal for a new way forward...
February 07, 2018
The first, from an article in the Chicago Tribune, "A Kansas chemistry professor got his...
February 06, 2018
Being obnoxiously facetious here: I am spectacularly non-athletic.  I get out of breath quickly, I'm...
February 05, 2018
In the news today, a literal Nazi will be on the ballot as the Republican...
February 05, 2018
A few paragraph from Saturday's Ross Douthat column in the Times, after describing the state...
February 04, 2018
This is really just a question for open discussion, but consider that, when it comes...
February 03, 2018
In my twitter feed this morning: which got me to thinking about her claim, "robust...
February 02, 2018
To here the activists tell it, Congress ought to, indeed has the moral obligation, to...

January 2018

January 31, 2018
That's the proposal in front of the Illinois legislature:  the state pension is underfunded to...
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