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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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		<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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		<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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