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October 2013

October 29, 2013

Diapers, frugality, and poverty (open topic)

As often seems to be the case, the comments section in this Slate article are...

October 29, 2013

Why I don’t (or rarely) reply to reader comments

So I was thinking about this the other day -- comments are great because you...

October 27, 2013

From the Library: The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, by Kathryn Joyce

So I'm going to summarize this book by memory rather than paging through it for...

October 27, 2013

True Confessions: I Watch The Big Bang Theory

OK, so I was late to watching the show, just because there are so few...

October 24, 2013

Office Max now thinks ADM had a pretty good idea. . .

This is how things work in Illinois: all the little people pay their taxes, as...

October 24, 2013

It’s all connected (on single motherhood)

These are the fragments of the piece that I'm planning to write for the Chicago...

October 22, 2013

“Ask Amy” and the population bust?

Dear Amy: I have been married to the love of my life now for almost...

October 21, 2013

From the Library: Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System that’s Leaving Them Behind, by Richard Whitmire

So this is an older book, published in 2010, which I happened upon in the...

October 20, 2013

Parking a link: Gatestone Institute?

So I clicked on their ad on Nat'l Review online and started to poke around,...

October 19, 2013

Guess the location . . .

. . . and the urban planning difference. Update: OK, when I posted this, I...

October 19, 2013

Parking a link: Soviet/Russian historical revisionism

The fate of German women in the face of Soviet soldiers in the closing months of...

October 18, 2013

Aldi is hiring!

So one of the perks of working at home is that I can take a...

October 17, 2013

Rent-to-own . . . tires

I finally got new tires on the car yesterday, something that was on the to-do...

October 17, 2013

So here’s a crazy suggestion on the busted exchanges. . .

Look, every conservative blogger out there is full of schadenfreude at the fact that the...

October 17, 2013

Thinking about the Yoffe “college drinking” article some more

So here's the issue: with respect to college drinking, how strong a motivator would, "don't...

October 16, 2013

2941 comments on a Slate piece on drinking . . . 2945, 2946, 2947

(The bottom line: is there a moral double-standard at work in telling women not to...

October 16, 2013

Regrets (or not) on getting middle-aged

So a friend posted this -- an old NYT "Opinionator" piece about the Path Not...

October 15, 2013

The “Julia” problem: It’s about the men

So I've been reading about the topic of unwed motherhood, and here's my working theory: ...

October 12, 2013

Promises I Can Keep, part 2

Continuing my notes on the book. (See part 1 here.)Chapter 1: Beginning with a profile...

October 12, 2013

From the kindle: Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas

This is an older book, first published in 2005. I came across this in a...

October 11, 2013

What is and isn’t “transparent” in the O’Care Exchanges

Lunch break!Megan McArdle has a post up on the exchanges, and a concern that the standardized tiers,...

October 10, 2013

Curse you, vampirestat.com!

Just a gripe: I'm really, really getting tired of the spammers which show up as...

October 10, 2013

Parking a link: bread-baking

Just came across this today: the "foodzeit" blog. I'm attempting, yet again, to make a...

October 10, 2013

Is Sex-selective Abortion coming to the West?

In the blog post, "Sex Selective Abortion Gains New Ground in the West," at Via...

October 08, 2013

From the library: Overdressed: the Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline

The blurb on the front cover says this: "Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what...

October 08, 2013

My first opinion poll!

Well, I'm sure I've been called at some point in the past with election-specific questions,...

October 06, 2013

Inner city transit, and a disappointing discovery

A while back, I wrote a post on "food deserts" and my belief that the...

October 06, 2013

I Have a New Project!

So people blog for different reasons -- to earn money, to be an author of...

October 04, 2013

On the shutdown, for what it’s worth

I know, you all have been impatiently asking yourselves, "when is Jane going to share...

October 03, 2013

Is ObamaCare a tax on the young?

OK, spoiler alert -- yes. Look, there are multiple ways of thinking about and paying...

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