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January 2014

January 20, 2014

Parking a link: Chicago’s “Ventra” fare-payment system

First, the link: "Ventra's Costs Put Nonprofits in a Bind." (I don't think this is...

January 19, 2014

On healthcare: what’s wrong with the status quo ante anyway?

This weekend in the blog/commentary world, Avik Roy wrote a piece at National Review Online,...

January 18, 2014

Don’t “Do what you love” – or, an article from Slate that I actually agree with!

Stop Saying "Do what you love. Love what you do." It devalues actual work.That's not...

January 17, 2014

Parking a link: losing the base

Long week at work and still not done! (Hence, the small number of recent posts.)...

January 13, 2014

For Illinois Governor: the endorsement goes to . . .

So I finally got around to looking at the GOP candidates for Governor in Illinois....

January 12, 2014

So what about income inequality, anyway?

So I was writing yesterday about the War on Poverty, and at the same time...

January 12, 2014

PE class — in college?

So this one surprised me: in reading an article, I came across a reference to...

January 11, 2014

We won the War on Poverty. Really.

This is going to be short, but I want to get this core idea "out...

January 10, 2014

Buzzfeed on Detroit

Here's a quick link: "Why I bought a house in Detroit for $500" which, unlike...

January 10, 2014

“Tuition set-asides” in the open!

Here's a link which is probably not going to get anyone (except WSJ subscribers) anywhere: ...

January 09, 2014

Crowdsourcing “101 Fast and Easy Recipes”

What the heck . . . coming off a discussion on Althouse on the non-cooking...

January 07, 2014

From Facebook: on grad school

So everyone in the right-of-center blogosphere is talking about the oversupply of humanties Ph.D.'s, and...

January 07, 2014

Lighthouses. . .

Facebook links: from mashable.com, taken today, andmore from the Daily Mail. Here in the actuarial...

January 06, 2014

Entrepreneurship and Obamacare

Ah, the lazy way to write a blog post: see two posts/articles, connect them together,...

January 05, 2014

Parking a link: on Social Security

Here's a piece by Andrew Biggs, reacting to a piece by Elizabeth Warren, on Social...

January 05, 2014

On “the humanities”

So Heather McDonald (whose writing I'm nearly always impressed with) has a piece in the...

January 04, 2014

On Professionalism and Ethics

This is that time of year when we actuaries are calculating whether we have a...

January 03, 2014

Legally-dead? Or “dead-dead”?

So I wrote about this before, but the Jahi McMath saga continues, with the parents...

January 01, 2014

What I’m watching for in 2014

So I started out thinking it would be a nice bloggy exercise to write out...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Open Enrollment Ends March 31st

That's the next ObamaCare metric. Or rather, that's the next meaningful ObamaCare metric and checkpoint:...

December 30, 2013

Gelato

So this isn't really meant to be a food blog, but I figure I can...

December 30, 2013

The Pumpkin Rolls story

So we don't have a lot of food traditions in my extended family, but one...

December 29, 2013

Thinking through death, brain death, and euthanasia

In which I try to make sense of a couple items in the news:First, the...

December 28, 2013

Should the Extended Unemployment Benefits be Re-extended?

So the Tribune is reporting today that the extended unemployment benefits are expiring, though I...

December 26, 2013

On iPads, EHR, etc.

Every now and again, I take a look at the "Legal Insurrection" blog by William Jacobson. ...

December 26, 2013

Christmas at the “the Actuary” household

We're finally past the early-childhood years for all of our children, which means that this...

December 26, 2013

The Freedom from Religion folks’ message is, well, counterproductive

So, unlike many towns, our little suburb had escaped nativity scene battles for many years...

December 23, 2013

The “FAMILY Act”???

So here's something fun: last week, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)...

December 22, 2013

Just for fun: do you think this is an accurate dialect quiz?

This quiz from the NYT was quite accurate for me (though it pinned me to...

December 22, 2013

Reader request — German e-courses?

This is a long shot, but you never know . . . My son is...

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