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“For my own part I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one i...

 By 2AM everything had finally kicked in: the Mucinex for the drip and the cough and the Sudafed for the pressure and the breathing, and, me...

 I've got a new data analysis piece up at The Pillar today looking at the demographics of religious belief and practice in the US based ...

The Pillar Podcast just put up their latest episode , which provides answers to some of the questions that people have asked about the story...

  Yesterday, The Pillar published an investigative story about how the general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops had been a...

 First, C.S. Lewis on Friendship:  Lamb says somewhere that if, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but ...

 At the end of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose , the main character returns to the monastery which was destroyed by fire, and s...

There's a meme going around claiming to summarize results from a New England Journal of Medicine study, and warning that receiving the C...

 Yesterday was our twentieth wedding anniversary. Twenty years is a huge milestone -- two decades! -- and yet our day was so busy (as has be...

MrsDarwin and I were talking about Brideshead Revisited this morning.  It's one of our favorite novels.  Indeed, a copy of Brideshead ...

 While there's another big data-driven set project that I'm working on for The Pillar, I got a chance this week to do some straight ...

photo by Evan Laurence Bench There are plenty of memes that want to know all about your book history and your all-time greats and your grand...

My baby brother got married this weekend.  It's been our family tradition to adapt some song with lots of harmony into a personalized to...

I've got a new data analysis piece up at The Pillar, looking to see if there is a "McCarrick Effect" on the annual appeals whi...

 Every so often I ask myself why (aside from chronic lack of time to do much of anything other than work, parenting, and mindlessly wasting ...

 There's a particularly frantic stage to parenthood, when you're outnumbered by people who can't use a toilet reliably and are l...

 In the 84th hour of the gas shutoff, I bit the bullet and took a cold shower.  What was supposed to be a routine inspection of our gas mete...

 One of the best new blogs that has come along in some years is Larry Chapp's Gaudium et Spes 22, and his most recent post is one which ...

In honor of a recent Beatrix Potter kick here, have a repost of Darwin's analysis of Potter's famous economics case-study, The Tale ...