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October 2016

October 11, 2016
According to today's Tribune, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing to crack down on...
October 11, 2016
Two opposite approaches: Trump wins primaries, and the GOP establishment follows all the rules, scrupulously...
October 10, 2016
That's what the USA Today reports, based on a survey by GoBankingRates.com. Except that's not...
October 10, 2016
Oh, wow, was this painful -- especially as it startedout.  I cringed when Trump sniffled;...
October 09, 2016
This is it. My boys are packing up the Playmobil in the basement playroom. Sure,...
October 09, 2016
Let's stipulate that Trump will not win the election, that the polling showing him ahead,...
October 08, 2016
In case you missed it, it was reported yesterday that Trump said really nasty things...
October 06, 2016
So this is a book that I'd been trying to find at the library for...
October 04, 2016
First of all, who knew that there was a separate world championship for female chess players?...
October 03, 2016
So here's a book of the genre that is, in the end, nothing new, but...
October 03, 2016
Maybe not. That is, according to a USA Today article, the Census Bureau is proposing...
October 01, 2016
Here's an article from the AP which appeared in the Chicago Tribune the other day:...
October 01, 2016
Free tampons!  That's the new rallying cry at universities, and refers to making tampons available...

September 2016

September 30, 2016
As follow up to my post from the other day: A performance by a Mexican...
September 30, 2016
well, 75 years ago yesterday, when I meant to write about it, was the start...
September 28, 2016
Let's think about the concept of "pride," shall we? If you're white, the notion of...
September 28, 2016
The Math Myth, in italics, that is: the title of a new book by Andrew...
September 27, 2016
So I watched the debate.  I even took copious notes.  But it was painful and...
September 26, 2016
The other day I asked for reader opinions about the retirement age.  Both here and...
September 26, 2016
This would be nothing unusual in many metro areas:  a requirement that builders of new...
September 23, 2016
Just a question, for now, for reader thoughts. There were a couple articles I came...
September 23, 2016
Yeah, so in the past week we've had bombings and attempted bombings -- and a...
September 20, 2016
Catholic teaching says: Consent -- and the maturity and mental capacity to be able to...
September 20, 2016
So over the weekend, Nick Kristof had an article asking, "Would you hide a Jew...
September 19, 2016
Bombs over the weekend. The press seeming more interested in scolding Trump for calling the...
September 17, 2016
So Clinton and the Democrats have as part of their platform expanding Social Security. "What,"...
September 16, 2016
For the longest time, I couldn't make sense of ITT Tech.  After all, here in...
September 15, 2016
Here's an excerpt from a letter from the New York Times' "ethicist" column: My wife...
September 15, 2016
So a month ago, I asked the question, "What should Social Security do about mothers?" in...
September 14, 2016
So some time ago, I read an article in The Atlantic, the main theme of...
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