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September 2015

September 16, 2015
From a letter e-mailed to parents yesterday: Our Board of Education will be meeting tonight...
September 15, 2015
25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he...
September 15, 2015
Dear Mutti, From all appearances, neither you nor your top advisors, have any clue about...
September 13, 2015
It is really, really difficult to keep up with what's going on, as refugee/migrants continue...
September 12, 2015
Playing Jeopardy, of course, with the question being:  "why should I wait to leave mass...
September 11, 2015
For many years we had a cat, Nicky, who was abandoned by our neighbor at...
September 11, 2015
If I have to read, in a comment or out there in the wide world...
September 10, 2015
Back in March, I proposed the Jane Tax Plan:  a proposal which retains the basic...
September 09, 2015
The Chicago Tribune had a depressing editorial today, "Why lost pets stay lost in Cook...
September 09, 2015
Why is Germany so willing to accept migrants?  Paul Mirengoff at Powerlineblog says it's because...
September 08, 2015
So, first of all, a big "yay" for CNN listening to protests and agreeing to...
September 08, 2015
Fun fact:  Catholicism and me go way back.  True, I didn't make an RCIA profession...
September 07, 2015
Yemeni from Hamtramck?  Iraqi from Dearborn?  I don't know but this was a family out...
September 07, 2015
Our Sunday afternoon:  starting at the Campus Martius park, walking to and along the riverfront,...
September 05, 2015
Here's the latest on the stream of refugee-migrants:  as you may recall, upwards of 10,000 refugee-migrants...
September 04, 2015
Dear Abby*, My elderly mother has been bedridden for the past several years.  She has...
September 04, 2015
First item:  Lila Perry, the "transgirl" whose decision to begin changing for gym class in...
September 03, 2015
Here's a book which I started reading, then forgot about until it was due at...
September 03, 2015
This comes via the Washington Post's Wonkblog, which tries to be data-heavy and, well, wonky,...
September 03, 2015
Every day, a new report. Today, the featured article link on Drudge:  "Shocking moment desperate...
September 01, 2015
School's back in session, and fundraising with it -- so much so that there's been...

August 2015

August 30, 2015
I'm late in posting these pictures, of the freighter Wilfred Sykes making its way from...
August 30, 2015
I told you a couple days ago that I was working through this whole question:...
August 28, 2015
I'm in the middle of drafting a post in which I attempt to resolve, for...
August 27, 2015
Substitute Atkins, or South Beach, or Taubes, or any similar diet that promotes meat-eating, okays...
August 26, 2015
The kids are at school, I have a mountain of things to catch up on...
August 24, 2015
Southfield is a middle-class suburb directly adjoining Detroit.  I lived there for the first seven...
August 23, 2015
I've posted two excerpts from this book already:  a passage on cultural differences, and a...
August 22, 2015
   Was I there as a patriotic supporter of veterans?  Actually, my son and I...
August 22, 2015
As you know if you've been following the reports on the Center for Medical Progress's...
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