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		<title>A September 11th Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from my “campaign” website due to general interest. Back in August, in looking at special events, I was surprised that there were no events announced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, so I made some calls and decided to hold an “unofficial” event in lieu of official events.  When [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Illinois’ Assisted Suicide Law is, yes, literally deadly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted, with edits, from my “campaign” website due to the general nature of the topic. When, last December, Governor Pritzker signed Rep. Grasse’s bill legalizing assisted suicide in Illinois, this is what the press release said: To ensure the highest safeguards for patients, the law is effective in September of 2026, which affords participating health care [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Revising the &#8220;Disability [Pride] Flag&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s Disability Pride Month, as declared by various disability activist organizations, such as The Arc Nation Council of Self-Advocates, Access Living of Chicago, and ADAPT, and with it comes various posts on social media promoting the Disability Pride Flag, a design originally created in 2016 by Ann Magill, an American woman with cerebral palsy, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In which I comment on the Supreme Court decisions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lots of big Supreme Court decisions issued in the past couple days, and, yes, for convenience, I cheated and asked Grok for a quick summary, which it provided with references.  I have not read all the details, and the purpose of this post is a quick review, as much for myself as for readers. Trump [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is there a fix for gerrymandering?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Right now, there’s an escalating tit-for-tat battle, with each of Republicans and Democrats accusing the other of being the instigator, over gerrymandering.  As far as I can tell, Democrats used the excuse of a moderate increase in the number of GOP seats in Texas to produce extremely unrepresentative gerrymanders in California and now in Virginia, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are 28% of Americans truly functionally illiterate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That’s the quickie headline for a long read-through of the 2023 PIAAC report.  This study, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, sponsored by OECD, is similar to the PISA report, but it measures adults’ education.  It does not define its results in terms of “grade level” but instead is more complicated than [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>About Amelia Wittkoetter (for Women&#8217;s History Month)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The photograph you see here has no date on it. On the back is written, “Amelia Wittkoetter[‘s] mother and sister Anne”; that’s my grandmother’s handwriting, and the photo is of her grandmother, also named Amelia Wittkoetter, and aunt. It’s clear that they are not well-off; the girl’s dress is ill-fitting, the woman’s hands are gnarled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>RIP, newspapers. RIP, Facebook. What next?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane the Actuary]]></dc:creator>
		<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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