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November 2013

November 21, 2013

A different approach to sex ed?

I suspect I may have written about this before (yeah, I make periodic attempts to...

November 21, 2013

Parking a Link: Preschool for All

This Brookings Study is linked to by instapundit.com: "New Evidence Raises Doubts on Obama’s Preschool...

November 20, 2013

Here’s an idea . . . a different approach to marriage

So I was thinking about this whole marriage thing again . . . here's the...

November 18, 2013

More on Introverts: two observations, and a comment

As a bit of follow-up on yesterday's post on introverts:  First observationAfter finding that the recent...

November 18, 2013

What does it mean to be “in the tech industry”?

Yesterday the Tribune featured, as it often does, an article from the Los Angeles Times,...

November 16, 2013

On Introverts. . .

So I was in a funk earlier today and decided that I would reread that...

November 13, 2013

Just for fun: “Mincome”

Yeah, once again, Althouse has found an interesting link and I'm playing copycat. According to...

November 12, 2013

Update on VoucherCare

So I was googling to see what came up in a search for VoucherCare (or,...

November 12, 2013

A “a new and solid floor in the provision of health care”?

That's what Eric Zorn, the Chicago Tribune columnist, is writing about in his blog today:...

November 10, 2013

Who remembers “Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry”?

OK, I know my readership is really too small to ask questions of my readers,...

November 09, 2013

November 9th

Two anniversaries: The first, Kristallnacht (or, more commonly in German, Reichskristallnacht), the night of terror...

November 09, 2013

Single Parenting: It’s about the women?

So a while ago, I wrote a post in which I said that the key...

November 08, 2013

Meanwhile, at my day job. . .

Just a five-minute gripe: I tell myself it's a good thing that the internet browser...

November 08, 2013

More on marriage (your thoughts?)

Sorry, I keep coming back to this topic, and am still working things out, so...

November 07, 2013

What is marriage, anyway?

So I pulled out my catechism -- that is, the Catechism of the Catholic Church...

November 07, 2013

From the Library: American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, by Diana West

So I didn't actually finish this book, but it sat on the bookshelf for too...

November 07, 2013

A short — and completely unresearched — history of nonmarital childbearing

(Look, I wrote this up while proctoring an actuarial exam without internet access.) We all...

November 06, 2013

What part of the term “insurance” do you not understand?

That's what I'd like to say to Amanda Marcotte, writing in Slate's Double X blog...

November 04, 2013

Parking a link: the Tribune on single-parent families

The Tribune, in it's Plan of Chicago series, editorialized on Sunday about the fundamental problem...

November 04, 2013

“Alt-ac”? “Post-ac”? Or “no ac”?

The latest article making the rounds of my small world concerns the future of doctoral...

November 02, 2013

Dissecting another “food stamp hardship” story

This story, "Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle" appeared in the...

November 01, 2013

Also on CNN: food stamp “hardships”

Beginning today, the temporary increase in food stamp benefits ends, causing recipients to see "cuts"...

November 01, 2013

Really, CNN? “Sex Workers Embrace Obamacare”

That's one of the top links at cnn.com today, bringing one, oddly, to a "small...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

And another Halloween has come and gone. . . (plus: a bonus “from the library”!)

You know, I used to think of myself as a "crafty" sort of person --...

October 31, 2013

Parking a link: back to fatherless kids

This opinion piece by Kay Hymowitz in the LA Times, linked to by National Review,...

October 31, 2013

So Obama lied. Now What?

I could come up with hundreds of links like this one, the Washington Post's 4...

October 30, 2013

Mmmm. . . Crock-Pot Round Steak with Mushroom Gravy, or, Tales from a Part-Time Housewife

Growing up, the only things I knew how to cook were boxed mac & cheese and...

October 30, 2013

New Plan!

OK, you guys have convinced me: I'm planning on, experimentally, making a point of blocking...

October 30, 2013

More on Adoption: “Illinois files ‘historic’ lawsuit against for-profit adoption agency”

That's the headline in yesterday's Chicago Tribune, discussing a lawsuit by the Illinois attorney general...

October 29, 2013

So which The Big Bang Theory character do you most identify with?

Just for fun (having watched two more episodes last night while folding laundry. . .)!

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