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May 2016

May 22, 2016
AirBnB has been in the news in Chicago lately, with disputes about how to regulate residents...
May 21, 2016
From the National Catholic Reporter, "Kentucky archdiocese nixes Supreme Court design on gay couple’s gravestone":...
May 20, 2016
if the alternative is no wages? That's the natural follow up to my comment on...
May 18, 2016
Here's the article that's been linked to by Mark Shea and others:  "Archdiocese announces new...
May 17, 2016
Affordable healthcare . . . Affordable housing . . . Affordable tuition . . ....
May 16, 2016
Or, at least, they shouldn't be.  But, apparently, at my local library, that's changing.  Books...
May 16, 2016
That's not their headline, in the item they posted on Friday.  They say, instead, "Gender...
May 15, 2016
Eh, probably not. Look, reports on basket-case Venezuela, such as this one on CNN, appear...
May 15, 2016
Here's an article, one of many, about the Obama administration's decree on transgender students: "Obama...
May 13, 2016
Yes, everyone was in a writing frenzy about suggestions that the Pope would permit the...
May 13, 2016
How often have you read that this election will end up destroying the Republican Party,...
May 12, 2016
Yeah, very rarely, I travel on business.  In this case, it was an internal team...
May 08, 2016
Remember this scene from The Sound of Music? During a ball to welcome the Baroness,...
May 06, 2016
Here's an item out of Slate, linking to an article in the Washington Post (it's...
May 05, 2016
So amidst all the hand-wringing about Trump and Clinton, my father-in-law passed away last night....
May 04, 2016
The next 6 months are going to be filled with debates about whether Clinton or...
May 04, 2016
Is it the fault of The Republican Party that Trump is the nominee? Depends on...
May 03, 2016
Well, that's over. Cruz crashed in Indiana, and threw in the towel.  To be honest,...
May 03, 2016
The Gap Year, the break from formal education between high school and college which is...
May 01, 2016
It's like a scene out of high school, in which the slackers seek to sabotage...

April 2016

April 27, 2016
A.  More than we care about breast cancer -- at least, based on causes of...
April 27, 2016
So this is what happens when you work at home, and have half-an-eyeball on twitter...
April 26, 2016
Listening to Trump speaking right now - how depressing!  Winning 5 states, by substantial margins....
April 26, 2016
where the Elementary School District 15 School Board has, as far as I, or pretty...
April 25, 2016
That's the reason, or has, at any rate, always been offered as the reason, why...
April 23, 2016
On Fridays, my middle son has a karate class just after dinner, and it's just...
April 22, 2016
So having given a more-or-less straight summary of $2 a Day in my prior post, here...
April 22, 2016
This book is not a polemic.  It largely busies itself with simply explaining the lives...
April 21, 2016
Look, we all get it:  an individual who has transitioned is in a position where...
April 21, 2016
Here's an update on Chicago politics for non-locals. Two years ago, George Lucas announced that...
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