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October 2014

October 27, 2014

Parking a link: Preteen sex?

Slate, from last week (missed it at the time) has a story (by Amanda Marcotte, of...

October 26, 2014

Today’s readings: usury

(I really, really need to get a start on putting labels on my blog posts....

October 25, 2014

What would you do?

Say you were, oh, I don't know, 75 or so, and aging hasn't treated you...

October 24, 2014

Can we just break the AP monopoly?

The National Review has been reporting on the controversial changes to the AP US History...

October 24, 2014

Reihan Salam was having an off-day yesterday

Usually I like his pieces, in National Review and in Slate; they're thoughtful and well-written....

October 23, 2014

What are your “life skill” must-haves?

Megan McArdle was mixing personal finance with well, impersonal finance today, discussing rent-to-own retailers and...

October 23, 2014

“Learn more at rethinkchurch.org”

One element of my morning routine is exercising -- no, not going out on a...

October 21, 2014

Daydreaming a little . . . the Steven Sandell Grant Program

So the Center for Retirement Research tweeted about this yesterday: $45,000 grants available to researchers...

October 21, 2014

Parking a link: a new (to me) report on Social Security polling

From a new tweet, but an old (2013) report, reporting the results of polling on...

October 19, 2014

What happens when marriage isn’t marriage any longer?

Normally, I'm not a fan of Tribune reporter and columnist Heidi Stevens, who seems to...

October 18, 2014

Thinking about a Core Curriculum

Today my son had a soccer game -- just the house league, and he's one...

October 18, 2014

The Spartans and History

Last Friday, my kids had the day off school due to a teacher in-service day,...

October 16, 2014

What do you make of the whole Apple egg-freezing benefit?

I didn't write about this yesterday, because I'm skeptical.Apple has announced that egg-freezing procedures are...

October 16, 2014

Is 25 the new 21?

No, it's not.But the premise of an article in The Atlantic on Wednesday is that...

October 15, 2014

On campus sexual assault: I’ll believe there’s a due-process crisis when . . .

yeah, you know how it goes, when the people who say it's a crisis act...

October 15, 2014

Which worries you more: ISIS or ebola?

I haven't written much, and pretty much nothing on these topics in particular, both of...

October 13, 2014

Let’s face it: Columbus Day is a lousy holiday

Let’s start with the general principle that “bank holidays” in which government employees and schoolteachers...

October 11, 2014

Your vote wanted — what’s the fair thing to do?

I'd create an Ann Althouse-style poll here, but, well, I haven't yet taught myself how to...

October 11, 2014

I am such a cheapskate that . . .

I just took an old cell phone and added T-Mobile pay-as-you-go service to it for...

October 10, 2014

Parking a link: University Life in Germany

Not much comment here, but Slate has a good article explaining how it is that...

October 10, 2014

Some data on causes of death

Here's a nice interactive table on causes of death - specify the age range and...

October 10, 2014

Breast Cancer Awareness – are women overtreating themselves?

Every October, I get annoyed at all the breast cancer-awareness promotions and the constant fundraising.Maybe...

October 09, 2014

Grammar question for the day

In the sentence, "I picked out a new color of paint for the wall," what...

October 09, 2014

There’s (not) an app for that

but I wish there were.Simultaneously I'm irritated by the massive increase in the employee share...

October 08, 2014

Should Spanish be America’s standard first-foreign-language?

In most of the world, students start learning English early. In Germany, English class starts...

October 07, 2014

Everything you ever wanted to know about Elternunterhalt

OK, that makes for a pretty short post. But once I tell you what I'm...

October 06, 2014

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Finally saw this on DVD over the weekend, and I'm not going to give you...

October 05, 2014

From the library: The Rule of Nobody; Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government, by Philip K. Howard

Boy, this is a downer of a book -- because the subtitle isn't really accurate....

October 04, 2014

Not with a bang but a whimper: how employer-sponsored health insurance will end

This comes out of recent personal experience as a employee, or rather, as the spouse...

October 03, 2014

If you believe that sex is just another form of recreation, then

are there any limits to when teen sex isn't appropriate?Oh, sure, of course, it should...

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