Whew! I got through another year without being marched toward the domestic gallows: Today is my wife's birthday, and I remembered it. Safe for another year!
I don't think she'd want me to advertise the number associated with her birthday (let's just say she's been 21 more than once now), but there is another number worth considering because it is illustrative of the fact that most people guess numbers wrong.
Before I get to that number, consider another one: I read recently...
One hundred years ago today the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, bringing Americans the joy of the income tax. You see some of them—perhaps your grandparents or great-grandparents among them—in this 1920 photo of people filling out tax forms at an IRS office.
Not many Americans complete their 1040s that way any more. Most use tax preparation software. I've been doing my taxes on the computer for years, and the process, though a bit tedious, is straightforward...
What is the proper Catholic apologetic against using women in combat?
That was the question I posed to Catholic Answers' leadership last week when we met off campus for two days for our annual planning retreat. At the start of one day's session I brought up the Pentagon's decision to incorporate women in nearly all phrases of combat. All of us at the table were opposed to that, but, I asked, what is the right way to argue about the issue?
I pointed to arguments that may...
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