Here’s a Time Magazine article about it. Here’s another one from the local New Orleans paper. The basic story: on Saturday, Bobby Jindal headlined a “prayer rally” at the LSU campus stadium, funded and sponsored by the American Family Association. The theme of the rally was supposed to be one of prayer for the nation. Now, the fact that the American Family Association has been labelled a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn’t trouble me, because, from what... Read more
On Friday, Megan McArdle opinioned on Obama’s proposal to tax 529 college savings plans in the same manner as 401(k) plans — that is by taxing the money as ordinary income when it’s withdrawn. Today, Glen Reynolds has a column in the USA Today that he’s touting, which observes that this is a “double-whammy, [because] those withdrawals will show up as income on parents’ income tax forms, which are used to calculate financial aid, making them look richer, and hence reducing... Read more
Today’s readings, my Catholic and liturgical-Protestant readers, will recall, included a passage from Jonah. Who doesn’t know the story of Jonah and the whale? Jonah rejects God’s call to preach to the people of Ninevah and runs away on a ship headed in the opposite direction, but a great storm comes up, he fesses up to the ship’s captain that the storm was sent by God due to his disobedience, and is thrown overboard, only to be swallowed by a... Read more
Yes, there’s little point in addressing the “free community college” plan yet again, considering that it has no chance of being enacted, but here’s another issue that I haven’t really seen addressed: We’re told that this is modeled after the Tennessee Promise, a plan that uses state lottery money to fund free community college for Tennessee recent high school graduates who meet certain criteria. What no one mentions is that this plan has not yet been implemented — this year’s... Read more
About a year ago, I told you about a new cookbook, “The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day,” and said I might even buy the book rather than just photocopying a few recipes. Well, I did, and I thought I’d update you on it. Here’s the latest batch of rolls. I probably could have arranged them more artfully, but you get the idea — they do pretty much come out looking, and tasting, like they came from a... Read more
That’s this year’s effort — a collaboration between dad and son, of course, though my 2nd grader did more of this than has sometimes been the case for our past years’ Pinewood Derby cars (3 kids = lots of cars). Idea: well, we had bacon as part of dinner last night and were running short on time. Cutting to size: Dad. Adding the shape: Dad + Son, taking turns, following Dad’s instructions. Sanding: Both, taking turns. Color: Son, with his... Read more
Here’s an interview with Blase Cupich, the new archbishop of the Chicago diocese, which he (ok, the assistant who handles his twitter account) linked to earlier today. Not a fan. He seems to play that same strawman game as Obama likes. In particular, he’s asked about bringing new people to the church, or convincing inactive Catholics to return, and says this: The other piece of this is finding ways to bind up the wounds of people, to reach out to... Read more
Just a link, for now: on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. And it’s a proposal, not law. But something for later reading. . . Read more
and I don’t mean that sarcastically. Yesterday, as we were finishing up dinner, I pulled out the iPad to look up children’s book author Brandon Mull, since he’ll be doing a talk and book signing at a library near us tomorrow and my son is a big fan (middle son, not the artist), and then looked at my pageviews (as, yes, I tend to do as part of my iPad-checking routine: facebook, e-mail, twitter, blog pageviews and comments). And there... Read more
Just for fun, my son’s artwork (though I couldn’t get the second picture rotated properly): Update: my son is now super-excited that, not only are his pictures on the computer (“I’m famous!”) but that “we” have been linked to in an insta-lanche. Fun times! Read more
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