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December 2017

December 14, 2017

Enough with the Net Neutrality Chicken Littles!

So my mom and dad, in their late 70s, have a computer, which mom uses...

December 13, 2017

What will life be like . . . in the year 2000?

This is it! The book you've been waiting for, forecasting 33 years into the future...

December 13, 2017

Is there a secularism tipping point?

Because I finally found out how to access survey data on church attendance! This is...

December 08, 2017

Dream-hoarding? Maybe dream-rejecting. Or, Holy Moly, would you look at these marriage statistics?!

It's now something that's been observed repeatedly: marriage is increasingly a middle/upper-class status. There are...

December 07, 2017

“One Easy Trick” to solve the Roy Moore mess

Will Franken resign, or won't he? It won't matter much to Minnesota voters, because Franken...

December 06, 2017

Let’s name a Person of the Year

The rules: You, my readers, will nominate. It should follow the Time norms, the person...

December 06, 2017

What about the “iGen”?

So after spending enough time working through iGen yesterday that I felt like I...

December 03, 2017

From the library: iGen, by Jean M. Twenge

Subtitled "Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy --...

December 03, 2017

Who wants to talk about Game of Thrones?

in the comments, that is? For context, my husband and I have been working our...

December 01, 2017

My New Car

So back a year ago, I wrote about how we replaced my husband's car, or,...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Tax “reform” – a question for readers

Every year, Gallup asks the question, is the amount of taxes paid by low-, middle-,...

November 29, 2017

Temperance and taxes

Remember the Women's Christian Temperance Union? I should remember more of it than I do,...

November 28, 2017

Is “sex in crisis” in Venezuela?

That's the headline at the Washington Post today: "Even sex is in crisis in Venezuela,...

November 27, 2017

The anti-Democratic CFPB

This is all over the news this morning, e.g., at the Wall Street Journal (an...

November 26, 2017

Jerry Brown, pension reform hero?

Here's the background: Back in 2015, the Illinois State Supreme Court ruled that a 2013 public...

November 22, 2017

A few comments on the German elections (or, What to talk about tomorrow that’s not Trump)

So I've generally been a fan of proportional representation in elections. After all, imagine if...

November 20, 2017

Affirmative-Action Rhodes Scholarships?

So this was a tweet from Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist: Which motivated me...

November 18, 2017

Grad student Chicken Littles — sort of right, sort of wrong

So last week I wrote a little blogpost expressing my irritation at the Chicken Little...

November 17, 2017

Update on college marketing

So we've finally made it past the college application process, coached my son through essays,...

November 16, 2017

“Make the Child Tax Credit refundable against payroll taxes” — huh?

That's what Marco Rubio has been pitching on Twitter: and he's not the only one....

November 14, 2017

How to Solve the “Politics of Personal Destruction”

Here are a few further thoughts on the Roy Moore issue. Voters in Alabama are...

November 13, 2017

“Hate crimes” in the news

Two items: On hoaxes: "Racist messages at Air Force Academy were written by student who...

November 12, 2017

A Lego Gallery

A beach scene. A pirate ship. A shark. The Stone Army guy from Ninjago. The...

November 11, 2017

Roy Moore

So I'm trying to think through the whole mess with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. ...

November 09, 2017

A Civil War what-if

You're likely seen variations on the "what if the South won?" theme before. There are...

November 08, 2017

No, the GOP tax bill will not destroy higher education

There are a number of articles out there about how the GOP is out to...

November 08, 2017

Jane’s vacation planning

So it's November. It's getting cold -- the perfect time to start planning, or dreaming,...

November 07, 2017

The Orville, “About a Girl”

So I've been watching The Orville lately. Actually, that's not entirely correct. I have watched...

November 07, 2017

What if you knew your neighbor’s pay?

Apparently, this is a thing in Scandinavia. According to The Economist, SWEDES discuss their incomes...

November 06, 2017

Income tax – or consumption tax, and: what I think about tax credits

So I'm still writing in general terms about tax reform, since the actual Republican tax...

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