Archives

July 2017

July 26, 2017
Hey, everyone!  I'm on vacation this week and have invited a few people to contribute...
July 21, 2017
Back in college, I was acquainted with a Star Trek fan and computer science major...
July 19, 2017
From Slate:  "A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet." Now, before I...
July 18, 2017
(The "again" is because I had previously posted on a similar article, and, yes, I'm...
July 16, 2017
In today's paper, an AP article on the devastation in Mosul:  "In freed Mosul, little...
July 15, 2017
I'd deliberated about an Instant Pot for a while now, and, in fact, a couple...
July 14, 2017
AAAAAAAAAAARGH! That's my first reaction to the "child care calculator" put out by the Center...
July 13, 2017
From The Guardian:  "Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children", which reports that having...
July 12, 2017
In this case, the question mark doesn't denote whether it'll happen or not - the...
July 10, 2017
From the twitter feed today, "Cast Idris Elba as James Bond Already" from The Daily...
July 10, 2017
(Warning!  Spoilers ahead!) I tried. My kids, the high-schooler and the incoming high-schooler, brought home...
July 09, 2017
So I went to the Renaissance Fair (or "Faire") in Bristol, Wisconsin, on Saturday, just...
July 09, 2017
One meme that Glenn Reynolds and others favored for quite a while consisted of listing...
July 08, 2017
In the news last week:  "The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why...
July 07, 2017
Again, from the Detroit News:  "Michigan judge extends freeze on private school aid." A Michigan...
July 06, 2017
In Seattle, the data is now in, and the net effect of the minimum wage...
July 05, 2017
So here's how I spent the 4th of July:  I spent the morning being lazy,...
July 04, 2017
My son will be applying to college next year, which means that stories of college...
July 03, 2017
That's the premise of a new book, Dream Hoarders, by Richard Reeves, being promoted by...
July 02, 2017
As reported at PJ Media: Defense Secretary James Mattis said the U.S. is going to...
July 01, 2017
As locals know, the legislature in Illinois is knee-deep in negotiations to actually pass a...

June 2017

June 30, 2017
In the news this week, per the Daily Mail's usual wordy headline, "Terminally ill baby...
June 30, 2017
In the news: "Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook can play a role that churches and Little League...
June 29, 2017
Did you know that we're approaching the first anniversary of the release of Pokemon Go?...
June 29, 2017
In the news on Tuesday (e.g., at The Hill): Just days before he resigns from...
June 27, 2017
Monday: "Missouri church wins playground case in Supreme Court," in, well, pretty much everywhere, but...
June 27, 2017
Yeah, this is a Thing I Do:  start to think about a topic, even a...
June 26, 2017
Did your children learn to ride their bikes with training wheels? As I recall, my...
June 25, 2017
So we went on our first campus tour yesterday, to Marquette University.  To be honest,...
June 22, 2017
The Senate healthcare proposal is finally out, and here's my first, lunchtime assessment. Republicans have...
Related posts from Jane the Actuary
Catholic
What about the "iGen"?
Jane the Actuary
Catholic
From the library: iGen, by Jean M. Twenge
Jane the Actuary
Catholic
Do you believe in the Singularity?
Jane the Actuary
Catholic
Illinois Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance? Ugh,...
Jane the Actuary
POPULAR CONTENT