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May 2017

May 12, 2017
So you know that whole argument about whether the Catholic church must preserve its ancient...
May 11, 2017
How much do you know about Korea?  Had you asked me that, before reading this...
May 10, 2017
Is it to educate and inform, that is, is there a public service mission, in...
May 07, 2017
How much money, if devoted to research with a different objective, would it take to...
May 05, 2017
It's surprisingly difficult to get a good picture of what's going on in the new...
May 05, 2017
I am outraged, outraged, I tell you, at the fact that Donald Trump seemed to...
May 03, 2017
The Catholic Church's teachings on contraception is not something I'm inclined to get on a...
May 02, 2017
So let's talk about the Civil War. The simple explanation of the war is that...
May 02, 2017
From the College Fix last week: According to a university [of Wisconsin, Madison] document obtained this...
May 01, 2017
In the news today, President Trump said that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil...

April 2017

April 30, 2017
Yes, really. According to Steven Chapman's column in today's Tribune, Alderman David Moore has sponsored...
April 29, 2017
NPR has decided that the Sydney Ireland story needs revisiting/re-promoting, so they've written another article...
April 28, 2017
is, apparently, that we are at risk of becoming a slightly weird version of fundamentalist...
April 26, 2017
  On the Democrats' party platform this summer:  the elimination of the Hyde Amendment and...
April 25, 2017
The other day, in the e-mailed news, my employer boasted of being named a "Best...
April 25, 2017
Imagine that you could, by ritually sacrificing a few people selected at random, ensure the...
April 20, 2017
So says an article in The American Conservative, as linked to by the National Review,...
April 20, 2017
The above picture is from our trip to London last summer, where it seemed like,...
April 19, 2017
How much would you pay for a glass of juice, to be consumed in your...
April 19, 2017
From the National Review Corner, citing the Heritage Foundation, on proposed changes to the census...
April 19, 2017
Some time ago, I wrote about the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori, teen boys and young men...
April 18, 2017
Here's just a bit of a catch-up; as you might have guessed from my lack...
April 13, 2017
Take a look in your freezer. Is there ice cream in there?  Or is it...
April 12, 2017
That's a post title that I wrote after Sean Spicer said, "even Hitler didn't use...
April 11, 2017
Which is 65 more than I thought they did. Sure, this is just a bit...
April 11, 2017
Back years ago, when I drove into the office every day, before I had kids,...
April 10, 2017
A United flight is overbooked.  For some unidentified reason, the crew has allowed all the...
April 08, 2017
Because, you know, Jesus compared himself to a shepherd, leaving the 99 to search for...
April 07, 2017
that is, if Chicago-area churches aren't actively involved in anti-poverty programs in the city. (Per...
April 07, 2017
The "hook-up," as practiced on American college campuses, has changed. That's what Lisa Wade reports...
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