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October 2015

October 30, 2015
Megan McArdle has a nice Friday-appropriate piece today, "Friday Food Post: The Economics Behind Grandma's...
October 29, 2015
Yes, the general consensus is "train wreck." The moderators, the general consensus is, were fools....
October 27, 2015
This, from Sunday's Chicago Tribune, "Insurance startup's slowdown discouraging": The recent demise of several Obamacare-spawned...
October 26, 2015
That's, of course, what President Obama announced when the Republicans took the House in 2010:...
October 25, 2015
Within recent memory, the pews at my parish's main Sunday morning mass, the one with...
October 23, 2015
Megan McArdle had a little piece yesterday on the chicken-and-egg debate about single parents and...
October 22, 2015
Bottom line on top:  the majority of self-identified Catholics simply don't believe there's anything wrong...
October 21, 2015
The Tribune has a tendency, especially in the "Health & Family" section, to feature somewhat...
October 21, 2015
It came last night. After years of refusing to take the company up on its...
October 20, 2015
Or, rather, as it's now named, Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois State Beach State Park Cullerton...
October 20, 2015
Yes, it's "Jane the Actuary writes a book report" again, though at least this time...
October 19, 2015
Yesterday I griped that Archbishop Cupich was starting to sound an awful lot like a...
October 18, 2015
According to today's Tribune, Chicago's Archbishop Cupich (whom I've been skeptical of ever since, upon...
October 17, 2015
Brief refresher on the Catholic Church's teaching on marriage: a valid marriage is a sacramental bond that...
October 16, 2015
You can't miss it on the Chicago lakefront skyline, a dramatic building standing out from...
October 15, 2015
What if -- the engagement ring, as we know it today, disappeared? Thanks to clever...
October 15, 2015
You have perhaps seen the projections:  Africa and the Middle East, as well as the...
October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders, as you may know, expressed the desire for the United States to be...
October 14, 2015
I started watching the debate with good intentions -- I didn't take copious notes but...
October 13, 2015
Dear Cardinal Marx,* It's been reported in the (U.S. Catholic) news that, as archbishop of...
October 13, 2015
This issue made the news back in September, when students in Missouri protested the use...
October 12, 2015
Is there a German schism in the works? That's what fellow Patheos blogger Dwight Longenecker...
October 11, 2015
That, paraphrased, is what a Syrian "refugee" is quoted as saying in this "greatest hits"...
October 10, 2015
Yes, and no, and "depends on what the meaning of 'stopping the Holocaust' is." If...
October 09, 2015
So reports are that Fiorina is using as an applause line, the claim that her...
October 08, 2015
Before I start writing, let me just remind you all, and any new readers in...
October 07, 2015
I've been waiting for my lunch break all morning, having first read about D.C.'s proposed...
October 06, 2015
Yes, this is a real thing, though for many years of German school I'd always...
October 05, 2015
Yesterday I wrote a little piece, "6 thoughts on gun violence"; what follows is an...
October 05, 2015
Here's the latest news:  two items from the Washington Post, as I blow through my...
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