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May 2015

May 19, 2015

Minimum wage update

Well, Los Angeles has done it: $15/yr, phased in by 2020, as reported, for instance,...

May 19, 2015

Walker, Rubio, Cruz, Jindal — help me out here!

This is getting ridiculous -- between the declared and the you-know-its-going-to-happen undeclared GOP candidates, I...

May 19, 2015

Responding to Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I've been sitting on this for a while, after hastily writing up my summary of...

May 18, 2015

News flash: History doesn’t care

Or maybe I should say, "history doesn't give a rat's a**", except that it's a...

May 18, 2015

Risk compensation, harm reduction, and morality

I was thinking about these concepts in connection with a couple things that came in...

May 16, 2015

Were the seeds of Detroit’s downfall built into its very rise?

Yeah, cryptic title. I'm trying, anyway, to create the sort of clever, intriguing headlines that...

May 15, 2015

Quick Detroit post for the day: the magical Syrians?

Remember when Jeb Bush suggested that the cure for what ails Detroit is to import...

May 15, 2015

From the library: Heretic, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

(I'm going to write this in two parts: for today, a summary of the book; tomorrow I'll...

May 14, 2015

Is the Pullman National Monument whitewashing history?

Or maybe "blackwashing" would be more accurate. Bear with me for some context: The Chicago...

May 14, 2015

Everyone’s talking about the Pew Study. . .

that is, the recently-released data that shows a substantial drop in the numbers of people...

May 14, 2015

Voting with their feet?

A couple days ago, I again griped that Illinois seems both unable and unwilling to...

May 12, 2015

“Forcing your wife to work”? Or sharing the load?

In other news this week (because, remember, I don't like what's going on in Iraq,...

May 12, 2015

By the way, an Illinois pension update

Here's the backstory: back in 2013, Illinois lawmakers approved a bill curtailing at least some...

May 11, 2015

More “gender” skepticism

Go read this article from the Washington Post, "When no gender fits: A quest to...

May 11, 2015

$600 million – $500 million = $100 million

Last week, I lamented that there were two unanswered, indeed unasked questions regarding the Obama...

May 10, 2015

Don’t overthink Mother’s Day (and getting the subject right!)

Have you ever been wished Happy Mother's Day by the cashier at the grocery store?...

May 09, 2015

Amigurumi (again)!

So here he is: my first attempt at an amigurumi animal, based off a panda...

May 08, 2015

Yes, I’m a transgenderism skeptic

Let me tell you about myself. I'm short. My driver's license says 5'3" -- that's...

May 07, 2015

Gotta get me one of them Suicide Bears

Here's the story: Yesterday one of the Patheos bloggers, Seasons of Grace, linked to an...

May 06, 2015

Will the real bookworm please stand up?

The Federalist had an interesting piece yesterday, "Media Say Obama Is A ‘Bookworm.’ Are They...

May 05, 2015

Helpful hint: media and pundits OK w/ Piss Christ but not Pam Geller are not “hypocrites”

- they just don't support the First Amendment. So reads my (1000th) tweet earlier today,...

May 04, 2015

Two questions no one’s asking on the Obama Library

1. What's the cost? 2. What's the content? The background: The Tribune is now reporting...

May 03, 2015

Community Colleges: low-hanging fruit?

I'm still mulling over Putnam's book, especially in connection with the whole mess in Baltimore....

May 01, 2015

From the library: Our Kids, by Robert D. Putnam

Yes, finally, after having mentioned this book in several prior posts, I'm finally writing about...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

The in-laws are coming. . .

Need I say more? How about the fact that they're hypercritical, about my claimed lack...

April 30, 2015

The unanswered “why” of the Baltimore riots

This is more of a question than anything else: What causes a riot? Sure, we're...

April 29, 2015

$158,775

That's the cost of a year of private-room nursing home care in Connecticut, according to...

April 28, 2015

A (probably blindingly obvious) observation about education, class, and cohorts

I keep dribbling out observations from the book I'm reading, Robert Putnam's Our Kids. Here's...

April 28, 2015

Secularism and Modernity

You've heard this (or a variant thereof) before, right? With hardly any significant exceptions, religion...

April 28, 2015

A few comments on the riots

So once again we have a city in chaos as originally-peaceful protests turn violent and...

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