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August 2014

August 11, 2014

This *wasn’t* a parody?

The other day, I saw references to an article asking for free tampons. I figured...

August 09, 2014

Are Americans’ retirement plans doomed, or is this survey a bunch of baloney?

This is where Twitter works reasonably well: Virginia Postrel linked to a blog post in...

August 07, 2014

Yes, Detroit once had commuter rail (with pictures!)

So, in lighter news (that is, as a break from ISIS, Gaza, Ukraine, the US

August 06, 2014

Beancounting

So my hostile open-borders commenter is back, eager to jump into my comments about the...

August 06, 2014

Who remembers this? (update)

Source: , as Michiganders of a certain age will recognize, is an Oasis at a...

August 05, 2014

Has the University of Illinois gone too far?

In recruiting undergraduate students from China to pay the bills, that is?A while back, I...

August 03, 2014

Back from “vacation,” part 3: on the cost of college

My husband and I met at the University of Notre Dame, and a couple years...

August 03, 2014

Back from “vacation,” part 2: Detroit, the suburbs, and gentrification

After our visit to Detroit back in March, I was able to offer some comments...

August 03, 2014

Back from “Vacation,” part 1: update on Dad

"Vacation" is in quotation marks intentionally, because the largest part of our somewhat-shortened week was...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Happy Birthday, Detroit

Detroit is celebrating its area code birthday -- yes, it's 313 years old, and local...

July 28, 2014

Parking a link: Immigration in Germany

This is a really interesting article from the Washington Post on the influx of immigrants,...

July 28, 2014

Affordable housing – additional thoughts

So I was thinking about the affordable housing issue some more after my prior post...

July 28, 2014

Affordable Housing by Zoning Reform: Detroit as a test case?

[Originally written 7/26/14]Reiham Salam, who writes at Slate.com and Bloomberg and National Review and, well,...

July 26, 2014

Gruber, State Exchanges, and the Easy Way vs. the Right Way

Everybody's talking about the statements of Jonathan Gruber in 2012 that have been unearthed and...

July 25, 2014

For sale: Tales of Suspense, Vol 1, #59, November 1964, featuring Iron Man and Captain America

According to sellmycomicbooks.com, this particular issue is noteworthy for being the first solo appearance of...

July 24, 2014

The right way, and the wrong way, to deal with housing affordability

I started thinking about the whole affordable-housing issue again because of a Chicago Tribune article...

July 24, 2014

Today’s post on demographics

Last night Ann Althouse linked to a Washington Post piece on the birth rate, which...

July 23, 2014

Remember Iraq?

(Sorry, no sources below -- I have a day job, but I wanted to type...

July 22, 2014

It’s time for another “Things I Am Not Blogging About” List

Because I feel compelled to let you all know that, just because I'm not blogging...

July 22, 2014

Twitter update!

This is what I've learned, after two days of Twitter:To start with, I am currently...

July 22, 2014

On the Colorado Family Planning Initiative

This CNN article reports that the teen birth rate dropped 40% from 2009 to 2013,...

July 21, 2014

Food blogging: Taco Bake

I haven't given you all any new recipes in a while, but here's one which...

July 21, 2014

Someone’s got to pay for the R&D . . .

From the New York Times, a report on a new medication for cystic fibrosis:Kalydeco is...

July 20, 2014

Do you twitter?

I set up a twitter account (yay, me!) just now, but I don't know if...

July 19, 2014

Parking a link: USDA report on promoting healthy eating for food stamp recipients (now with summary and analysis)

I do want to comment on this report later but wanted to save the link, as...

July 18, 2014

How to Fix the Gaza Strip

OK, before you get all upset and say, "the Isareli-Palestinian Conflict is intractable and if...

July 17, 2014

We should get employers out of the [fill in the blank] business

Those of us who have not gone into an apocalyptic panic at the Hobby Lobby...

July 17, 2014

Sorry, but pets *are* property

In today's paper, in the category of "lighter news" (in the paper's own categorization --...

July 16, 2014

Corporate income taxes, inversion, and related issues on which I am not an expert

Oh, the joys of blogging. For the past several days, I'd intended to write something...

July 16, 2014

What happens when there are no “grown-ups in the room” — more on Gaza

Here's a comment I made on a marginalrevolution.com post yesterday, about Israel's actions in Gaza,...

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