Here’s the story: Divorced parents Jeffrey Younger and Anne Georgulas have been at odds over the treatment of their seven year old son, whom his mother insists is transgender and wishes to live as a girl, and whose father insists that, during the boy’s visitation periods to his father’s home, is perfectly happy being dressed as a boy, being called his birth name, and engaging in “boy” play, roughhousing, etc., with his twin brother. As Life Site News has been... Read more
So there’s a new report out at the Brookings Institute promoting “national service” and this concept really irks me to no end, so I wanted to spend a little bit of time griping about the concept, in general, and this particular report, specifically. Advocates of national service promote the idea as a sort of 21st-century equivalent of the draft. In the idealized world (and as politicians like Buttigieg continue to idealize it), men (and women, now) who spend time in... Read more
So this past weekend — well, not really a weekend, actually, but from Thursday through Saturday, I was in DC, and while what brought me there was a meeting that’s one small step forward in Jane The Actuary’s (delusional) Plan To Fix Retirement, I tacked on a day before and after; I had hoped to add to this some additional meetings or events broadly speaking (speakers, panels, etc., of the sort that the big think tanky people sponsor), and did... Read more
So I’m trying to stay away from Trump-news, knowing that (a) I personally cannot play a real role in how it plays out and that (b) I lack the background knowledge (let alone all the new developments) to reasonably assess the correct outcome of the impeachment drama or whatever the current scandal of the day is. In the same way, I’m watching all manner of reports on the Amazon Synod and trying to hold back judgement. There was a lot... Read more
An article I previewed yesterday . . . You’ve likely seen this reported elsewhere by now, a Seattle Public Schools “Math Ethnic Studies Framework” that first made the rounds on twitter, as part of a curriculum of “ethnic studies.” Subsequent to the document itself being shared, pundits jumped in to criticize it, such as radio talk show host Dori Monson, in an op ed: This is what happens when you allow radicals to take control of the schools. You start... Read more
So this morning, I couldn’t let a tweet on China go by without replying, as follows: unreasonable to think that China would follow the same path. (Yes – we also thought that Russia would become a true democracy rather than evolving into Putinism!) Maybe I'm just too "front row" but I still get weepy thinking about the fall of the Berlin Wall. — Jane the Actuary (@JanetheActuary) October 8, 2019 I mean, come on! https://t.co/2kUT6hQ3UP. — Jane the Actuary (@JanetheActuary)... Read more
Regular readers will notice that I haven’t been blogging as frequently lately, and that’s partly because I’ve been focusing on the Forbes writing and other projects, and partly because I’ve just gotten out of the routine, and partly because I’ve been trying to knock things off various to-do lists. And right now I’m looking at the various drafts that are sitting on the WordPress editor, everything from typed up blog posts that just didn’t properly gell, to a bookmarked link... Read more
This past weekend, it rained, and was unseasonably cold, and was really kind of stinky. Yesterday it warmed up – and, at the same time, my husband happened to have planned to take the day off for some father-son time with my teenager but they ended up spending time on Sunday at the shooting range, and then my teen needed to catch up on homework, so the two of us had a sort of “date afternoon” by throwing the bikes... Read more
Did Trump demand a quid pro quo by holding up aid to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation of Joe Biden’s possibly corrupt dealings in Ukraine? If this isn’t apparent from the transcript, was it visible from his demeanor and tone of voice? Did he try to tamper with an investigation, hide evidence, etc.? Was Hunter Biden, in fact, guilty of corruption? Did he come by his very lucrative job in Ukraine because his employer expected him to use... Read more
So it turns out I have a jumble of things to write about, and I’m not keen on putting them into a tightly organized set of articles as they really out to be as really all they have in common is that that’s what went on and what I was thinking about this weekend. So let’s just go somewhat in order — Starting with Friday night, when my husband and I went on a walk and, along the way, I... Read more
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