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May 2015

May 25, 2015
Three numbers: 2.3% 2.2% 1.8% That point to a major change in employer-sponsored health insurance...
May 25, 2015
A couple days ago I registered my disapproval of the National Review's attempt to gain...
May 23, 2015
Yes, there are lots of articles out there on spiritual themes in the movie, including...
May 23, 2015
Here's an article (from a Patheos blog which appears to get way, way more traffic than...
May 22, 2015
It's Eurovision Song Contest time, and the media is revisiting last year's winner, Conchita Wurst,...
May 22, 2015
So says Robert Gates, or, rather, that's a very loose paraphrase of his words at...
May 21, 2015
National Review, which does try to be sensible for all that my left-of-center readers might...
May 21, 2015
Hey, readers! Look, I know that many of you aren't Catholic.  But I also know...
May 21, 2015
It strikes me that moving to Patheos has had one surprising consequence:  my commenter base...
May 20, 2015
Not long ago, I wrote about a plan afoot in my local school district/community college...
May 19, 2015
Well, Los Angeles has done it:  $15/yr, phased in by 2020, as reported, for instance,...
May 19, 2015
This is getting ridiculous -- between the declared and the you-know-its-going-to-happen undeclared GOP candidates, I...
May 19, 2015
I've been sitting on this for a while, after hastily writing up my summary of...
May 18, 2015
Or maybe I should say, "history doesn't give a rat's a**", except that it's a...
May 18, 2015
I was thinking about these concepts in connection with a couple things that came in...
May 16, 2015
Yeah, cryptic title.  I'm trying, anyway, to create the sort of clever, intriguing headlines that...
May 15, 2015
Remember when Jeb Bush suggested that the cure for what ails Detroit is to import...
May 15, 2015
(I'm going to write this in two parts:  for today, a summary of the book; tomorrow I'll...
May 14, 2015
Or maybe "blackwashing" would be more accurate. Bear with me for some context: The Chicago...
May 14, 2015
that is, the recently-released data that shows a substantial drop in the numbers of people...
May 14, 2015
A couple days ago, I again griped that Illinois seems both unable and unwilling to...
May 12, 2015
In other news this week (because, remember, I don't like what's going on in Iraq,...
May 12, 2015
Here's the backstory:  back in 2013, Illinois lawmakers approved a bill curtailing at least some...
May 11, 2015
Go read this article from the Washington Post, "When no gender fits: A quest to...
May 11, 2015
Last week, I lamented that there were two unanswered, indeed unasked questions regarding the Obama...
May 10, 2015
Have you ever been wished Happy Mother's Day by the cashier at the grocery store?...
May 09, 2015
So here he is:  my first attempt at an amigurumi animal, based off a panda...
May 08, 2015
Let me tell you about myself. I'm short. My driver's license says 5'3" -- that's...
May 07, 2015
Here's the story: Yesterday one of the Patheos bloggers, Seasons of Grace,  linked to an...
May 06, 2015
The Federalist had an interesting piece yesterday, "Media Say Obama Is A ‘Bookworm.’ Are They...
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