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		<title>RIP, newspapers. RIP, Facebook. What next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For most of my adult life, I was a subscriber to the Chicago Tribune.  That ended in November, or a couple months prior, depending on how you measure, since I cancelled but didn’t demand a pro-rate refund for the prepaid portion, and it finally ran out in November.  Funny thing is, though, that I can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What about the Holocaust-denying Republicans?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The numbers are concerning, to say the least, in a poll released last month by the Manhattan Institute on the differences in beliefs between the GOP “old guard” and the New Entrant Republicans, who voted for the GOP for the first time only recently.  Many of the questions are fairly ordinary but there are several [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Heritage Americans&#8221;?  No, WEIRD people.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s been a whole debate raging on twitter recently, in which one side says, “anyone with American citizenship is just as American as anyone else,” and the other side saying, “people whose ancestors have been in America for longer are more American than new arrivals,” and the first side countering, “you’re just being racist!” But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From the library: Believe, by Ross Douthat</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the subtitle, Why Everyone Should be Religious. Is it a perfect book?  No.  If I were Douthat’s editor, I would have marked up a bunch of passages and asked for him to clarify his statements, particular for subject matter that the general reader wouldn’t necessarily know.  But it seems to me that this book, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bonus pre-Advent commentary on The Visitation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why is this “bonus” commentary?  Merely because this is an angle that I don’t really see discussed but an incidental reference on twitter piqued my curiosity. Consider the text in Luke 1:39 – 40:  “With haste Mary arose and went into the hill country, to a town of Judah, and entered the house of Zechariah [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just how high will whooping cough prevalence increase?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My last post, I labelled as a “rediscovered draft.”  But sometimes I click on an interesting-looking draft and am disappointed to learn that all I had done was write the title, yet you can guess by the title that this dated to the time when we had localized measles outbreaks and people were worried about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Missing the point of suburban bike-friendliness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, I scroll through the drafts to see what I had written and then decided was not yet “ready for prime-time” and afterwards forgotten about.  This is one of those:  it’s now dated because it was written in reaction to the announcements about pork-spending at the end of Illinois’ legislative session in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are Mormons Christian?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are Mormons Christian? That’s the question that’s been under discussion on twitter, triggered by the shooting/arson/attack at a Mormon/LDS church in Michigan on Sunday.  Honestly, it’s not clear to me how the conversation shifted from “my heart goes out to those families” to “they aren’t actually Christians.”  I suppose most charitably this started as speculation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The moral response to immigration enforcement: negotiation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Next Sunday’s reading, it turns out, is a timely one: the first part of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, when God told Abraham he was going to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham negotiated with him to try to get him to spare those cities, as follows:. 20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Actually, Card. Cupich is hurting, not helping, immigrants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the message that Cardinal Cupich plays on repeat:  immigrants have done nothing wrong; indeed, they have been invited here. At his homily at the Pope Leo event at Rate Field in June, he said this: Without question, countries have a duty to secure their borders, protect the public from crime and violence and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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