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February 2015

February 27, 2015
Welcome to my world!  I’m excited to be blogging at the Patheos community, after about...
February 26, 2015
A Facebook friend posted about this yesterday; at various colleges & community colleges across the...
February 26, 2015
Why is it that, whenever newspapers want to find sad stories to illustrate their political...
February 25, 2015
On Cuba, after what was claimed to be intense negotiations, Obama announced as much liberalization...
February 24, 2015
Do you remember back in Sunday School, when the teacher would impress on you how...
February 23, 2015
I've been writing (too?) frequently on this topic (e.g., yesterday's post on an interview with...
February 22, 2015
(For quite some time, I was a new enough blogger that I could find anything...
February 22, 2015
(Some backstory here.)I didn't grow up Catholic, but Lutheran.  Well, mostly.  Mom is Lutheran and...
February 22, 2015
If you have no connection to Detroit, this piece, "Does your Detroit suburb suck?  An...
February 20, 2015
Yeah, so this is a film, not a book.  It's about firefighters in Detroit, and...
February 20, 2015
This is somewhat long-winded and it takes a while to get to my point (to...
February 19, 2015
Spoiler alert:  no.But here's what I'm thinking:Obama repeatedly insists that ISIS is "not Islamic" and...
February 18, 2015
And I'm going to ramble a bit to see if anything interesting comes out.If you're...
February 18, 2015
Is Obama just stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the connection between Islamic terror groups and, well,...
February 18, 2015
Here's an article (somewhat older, but the story's still the same) on Germany burial practices....
February 18, 2015
This map, from the New York Times, claims to be about how many women are...
February 18, 2015
Here's a link to an NPR article on the subject, citing cases of parents in...
February 18, 2015
Nothing particularly new in this news item out of The Atlantic, but worth a read...
February 17, 2015
To be updated with my own reply later today, but I know I have other...
February 16, 2015
"What ISIS really wants," from The Atlantic, is a pretty in-depth profile of ISIS and...
February 15, 2015
Please don't interpret the fact that I'm not writing about such developments as the latest...
February 15, 2015
No, not nonsense about per-child or other kids of tax credits.But instead, a change in...
February 15, 2015
It was a Valentine's Day outing with my husband.  Yeah, not a standard Date Night...
February 13, 2015
This is actually an old book, dating from 2006.  I strayed from the new book...
February 13, 2015
(For context, see my post from Wednesday.)I just wrote the text below as a comment...
February 12, 2015
First of all, the reporting:Per the Chicago Tribune:Little League International stripped Jackie Robinson West of...
February 11, 2015
(Update:  see more reflections here.)For those in a cave, three people were shot in their...
February 11, 2015
(What's good, and bad, about blogging on your own is that it requires no self-discipline....
February 10, 2015
So right now lots of conservatives are flipping out that Obama compared ISIS to the...
February 10, 2015
What does Obama really think about ISIS and radical Islam?  And about the Crusades, for...
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