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April 2014

April 04, 2014

On Mozilla and Freedom of Conscience

Well, what is there to say, really?As has been reported in multiple places (see, among...

April 04, 2014

Decisions, decisions. . .

So after months and months of renewal notices, my 3-year subscription to The Economist has...

April 03, 2014

Should we tax the childless?

That was the topic of a click-bait Slate article, " Tax the Childless; We should...

April 03, 2014

Did President Obama “Whitewash” World War I?

That's the accusation of this article in The Progressive, as linked to by Best of...

April 01, 2014

When did we start thinking of homes as investments?

This was something I was thinking about the other day (another topic that I don't...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Who remembers Tammany Hall?

Last of the rough drafts to finish up for tonight!The pro-immigration lobby, and pro-immigration* researchers,...

March 31, 2014

Is Common Core destroying math education?

Third post that's been sitting as a draft for a while.You've all seen this, right?...

March 31, 2014

Professionalizing college sports – and fixing Title IX

Unfinished post #2. It's a two-fer. This is what I'd like to see happen with...

March 31, 2014

Professionalizing college sports – and fixing Title IX

Unfinished post #2. It's a two-fer. This is what I'd like to see happen with...

March 31, 2014

“A child needs a father like a fish needs a bicycle”

I just sat down to my computer and looked at the list of posts --...

March 28, 2014

The Museum of Art History (TM)

So we spent a couple days at my parents' house, and one of our outings...

March 27, 2014

On home-buying

So Megan McArdle is writing about homebuying today, and I thought I'd just comment there...

March 27, 2014

Yep, Detroit is pretty much hopeless

So we're visiting my parents in Detroit for a couple days (yeah, we had The...

March 24, 2014

*THIS* is why our immigration system is broken

When immigration activists say, "our immigration system is broken," I'm not persuaded by their arguments....

March 24, 2014

I have a new cause!

So for a while, I'd periodically see someone collecting petition signatures for a proposed term...

March 22, 2014

Vacation planning?

So I just thought I'd throw this out there: We're very behind in our summer...

March 22, 2014

A different way of looking at unwed parents?

So over at Ann Althouse's blog, a discussion on black families in poverty and some...

March 21, 2014

Just what Illinois needs . . . a millionaire’s tax

Here's the first paragraph in the lead article in the Chicago Tribune today:Illinois Democrats went...

March 20, 2014

Aging parents — a question

So this is the sort of question I'd usually pose to my facebook friends, to...

March 19, 2014

Illinois Primary Postmortem

The election’s over.And as far as the Illinois general election is concerned, it is truly...

March 18, 2014

I Just Voted. ..

And, while there, remembered that I had neglected to look into the Republican primary for...

March 17, 2014

MH370 and “reverse Ockham’s Razor”

OK, I've never heard that expression, and I'm not really intentionally trying to coin a...

March 17, 2014

Is this a college admissions office, or the NSA?

That's the page 4 article in the Chicago Tribune today: "Colleges admissions offices mine data...

March 16, 2014

The Chicago Tribune misses the point on college sports

So last weekend I was in the mood to write about college sports, and my...

March 15, 2014

Parking a link: Foreign Students

This was something that was an instapundit.com link a couple days ago: "Universities Try a...

March 15, 2014

Parmesan, Feta, Black Forest and other injustices in labelling

So just catching up on the news over the weekend, including a report from multiple...

March 13, 2014

Someone please explain this to me:

Putin is massing troops on the Ukrainian border??? I don't understand this. What happened to...

March 11, 2014

“Ban Bossy”?

So what do you make of this new campaign? According to the website, When a...

March 11, 2014