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November 2015

November 19, 2015
According to the UNHCR (here, and a PDF report here), there are 59,500,000 refugees and...
November 18, 2015
Hey, have you read any recent updates on Venezuela?  Last I checked, the shelves were...
November 18, 2015
Should we halt refugee resettlement from Syria due to concerns about ISIS-infiltrators? Here's a recent...
November 17, 2015
It's the feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 - 1231), who, I might add,...
November 17, 2015
I harped on this back in September, for instance, in a pair of blog posts...
November 15, 2015
Red cups, eh? Yes, some of us are outraged at the Red Cup Scandal at...
November 14, 2015
There's a meme now making its way around facebook and twitter.  The basic gist is...
November 14, 2015
(Yeah, it was morning when I drafted this; afternoon now, after grocery-shopping and other errands.)...
November 13, 2015
Started with the death of a friend, my husband's good friend, husband and father of...
November 13, 2015
Give workers standing to sue, similar to the way disabled individuals can collect cash from...
November 11, 2015
who have been proclaimed, according to the Washington Post, the "world's most relaxed moms," at...
November 10, 2015
But here's a post for you all to tell me what I missed!
November 10, 2015
Have you ever googled a friend, not out of ill-intent but just curiosity, because they'd...
November 09, 2015
  It's garbage. Really. Here's the link to the study itself, as linked to by...
November 09, 2015
You've surely heard this before:  we need to adopt year-round schools to end the "summer...
November 08, 2015
For those of you at a Catholic or reasonably liturgical Protestant church today, you heard...
November 08, 2015
  Looks nasty, doesn't it?  But it tastes better than it looks. This is "peanut...
November 07, 2015
Atheists who believe in God. . . people who don't believe in God who don't...
November 06, 2015
The following is from Slate's advice column, Dear Prudence -- and, to be honest, some...
November 06, 2015
Likely you've read one of the recent news reports that Robin Williams, at the end...
November 06, 2015
Happy Friday, all -- and I've got a couple posts in draft form, or maybe...
November 04, 2015
You know the drill if you've been following the blog for long enough:  Friend.  Cancer....
November 04, 2015
This is, as you're likely used to by now, one of my more fact-free posts,...
November 03, 2015
If you're a pension actuary, you know that there are two pieces of data that...
November 03, 2015
When I wrote my post the other day suggesting that Rubio give a Big Policy...
November 03, 2015
We know that criminals, by their nature, violate the law.  An individual with an intent...
November 01, 2015
So it appears, based on mass today, that someone from the parish reads the ol'...
November 01, 2015
That's the trouble, isn't it? Marco Rubio wants amnesty.  There's no mistaking this. He also...

October 2015

October 31, 2015
  Yes, somehow my middle-school son's friends were all into Monty Python and decided to dress...
October 31, 2015
Here's some news out of the latest budget deal that pretty much escaped the notice...
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