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April 2017

April 06, 2017
Something that I've learned in trying to find out more about merit scholarship opportunities:  they're...
April 06, 2017
I just finished a Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress, by Sara Tuvel Bernstein with Louise Loots...
April 05, 2017
As in, I'm Mom, and this is the list I started as a way of...
April 05, 2017
So, two years and some months ago, I posted some of my then-2nd grade son's...
April 04, 2017
I've thought, off and on, about the Staff Model HMO concept -- that is, the...
April 03, 2017
Not long ago, I wrote about my discovery that the answer to all our family...

March 2017

March 29, 2017
How should the Supreme Court make its decisions?  Should they focus on helping the "little...
March 28, 2017
She's standing up to something. What? She's standing firm against a bull, about to charge...
March 27, 2017
Just curious - we all form our opinions only partly by what we read in...
March 26, 2017
Insurance:  a financial product in which a consumer buys a policy promising payment in the...
March 25, 2017
So it's official:  the GOP has had so little support for the "American Health Care...
March 23, 2017
They've caught the individual believed to be responsible for hoax bomb threats on JCCs, not...
March 21, 2017
Can we preserve American culture, and American values, with "other people's babies"?  Representative Steven King...
March 20, 2017
Spoiler alerts, for those who care about these sorts of things. I have to admit...
March 20, 2017
Sure, there's probably tons written about this in the academic literature, but remember, I'm just...
March 17, 2017
Yeah, just a question.  No agenda. Open forum -- do you celebrate?  If so, why?...
March 17, 2017
Perhaps you remember this from history class in school:  in the system of slavery as...
March 16, 2017
New, must-read article in The Atlantic, by Peter Beinart:  "Breaking Faith; The culture war over...
March 15, 2017
There've been a number of opinion pieces again recently on the question of whether it's...
March 13, 2017
When you expect that scientists have the answers to moral questions. When you believe that...
March 12, 2017
Back in February I wrote about Caterpillar's decision to move its headquarters from Peoria to...
March 12, 2017
Hey, everyone -- I said in my prior post that I'd been having real-world conversation....
March 11, 2017
Just a quick link here:  NPR published an article, "I'm Pregnant. What Would Happen If...
March 11, 2017
So I've had some (gasp!) off-blog conversations about the whole issue of climate change/global warming....
March 10, 2017
So says the headline of this NPR article, "Iceland Plans To Become World's First Country...
March 09, 2017
How many Holocaust survivor narratives have you read?  I can think of: Night Clara's War...
March 09, 2017
This is more a matter of aiming at opening up a discussion than anything else...
March 08, 2017
So there's a strike today.  Did'ja notice?  Yeah, me neither. Seriously, though, this is not...
March 07, 2017
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. That's my overall reaction to the GOP's new healthcare bill....
March 04, 2017
For discussion: Here's a recent New York Times article on illegal immigrants with deportation orders...
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