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January 16, 2016
An incident at the drugstore, and the answer to the Little Sisters issue
. . . if the Obama administration truly cared about respecting religious accommodation, that is....
January 15, 2016
Can Germany’s Arab immigrants be fixed?
They're flawed in all manner of ways. They are, it turns out, rather uneducated, on...
January 14, 2016
GOP Debate, Jan. 14, 2016
Can I watch the debate, blog, and catch up on work at the same time?...
January 14, 2016
Should there be guarantees in pension systems?
That's the title of a Call for Papers sponsored by the Society of Actuaries. Here's...
January 13, 2016
News from Germany: the kleinen Waffenschein
Gemany, as you likely know, has much tighter restrictions on weapons than in the United...
January 13, 2016
A few words on Natural Born Citizens
I'm not a Cruz supporter, but this discussion is getting a bit out of hand....
January 13, 2016
Reading the SOTU
So, look, I didn't watch the speech last night, nor did I watch the Republican...
January 11, 2016
From the library: Headscarves and Hymens; Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, by Mona Eltahawy
I picked this up of the New Book shelf yesterday and it's a short enough...
January 09, 2016
Will Silvesternacht prove to have been a turning point for Germany?
First, the updates: Despite the seeming impossibility of the task, the Cologne police have had...
January 07, 2016
On Germany: I got nothin’ (well, not much, anyway, in terms of insights)
Germany has a problem. Turns out, the integration of 1 million + Muslim refugees is...
January 05, 2016
Recipe-blogging: Pepper-less pepper steak
Yeah, sure, this is trivial, and nothing to get excited about, as we're not exactly...
January 05, 2016
“Mechanical Turk” and the Etsy Economy
This is new-to-me, though not new per se: Amazon has a side business selling not...
January 04, 2016
A brief observation on minimum wage-earners and food stamps
Here's the context: I spent a fair bit of time writing on the issue of...
January 03, 2016
The “Caring Hearts Ministry”?
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. Longtime readers will know that...
January 03, 2016
I finally saw The Force Awakens
And, having restrained myself from clicking on all manner of articles purporting to explain plot holes and...
January 02, 2016
Is everything you know about food banks wrong?
So it would seem, based on this Washington Post article from a couple days ago,...
January 01, 2016
Jane the Actuary’s (not so) greatest hits, part the third
Continuing my look back at the various things I've written: 25. February 10, 2015, "Thinking...
January 01, 2016
Jane the Actuary’s (not so) greatest hits, part two
Continued . . . 13. September 2, 2014, "Back from Michigan, part 3: Schools of...
January 01, 2016
Jane the Actuary’s (not so) greatest hits, part one
This appears to be the time of year when bloggers look back, to their most...
December 2015
December 30, 2015
If Christmas didn’t exist, would we have to invent it?
By which I mean not the celebration of Christ's birth, but the orgy of shopping....
December 28, 2015
Should we “stop giving our junk to the poor”?
That's the call in an article at Aleteia, "Why We Need to Stop Giving Our...
December 28, 2015
The War on Christmas: an opportunity, but also (let’s face it) a loss
So in the days leading up to Christmas I spent my time reading about Islam...
December 27, 2015
Is Pink-flation a legitimate complaint?
Yes, that's my attempt to coin a term, not the author's usage, but here's a...
December 26, 2015
Girl Scouts at the toy store
No, I don't mean that they've set up a cookie-selling booth. I mean that they've...
December 26, 2015
Stray thought on the hijab
So now I've read in multiple places (e.g., Ali-Karamali per my summary the other day,...
December 25, 2015
Merry Christmas to my readers
The house is temporarily quiet, so before I go back into the kitchen, here's a...
December 23, 2015
There are two kinds of Islam (and further thoughts)
and, no, I don't mean Sunni vs. Shi'a. I mean an Islam of "core principles"...
December 23, 2015
From the library: Mecca and Main Street; Muslim Life in America after 9/11, by Geneive Abdo
Last book. In the prior two books I've talked about, we saw that there exists...
December 22, 2015
Are Mormons Christians? (and more relevant follow-up questions)
Still reading by library books on Islam and drafting a more comprehensive response to them,...
December 22, 2015
From the library: Allah, Liberty, and Love; the Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom, by Irshad Manji
From the title of this book, you'd think it's a replay of Ali-Karamali's The Muslim...
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