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August 2017

August 12, 2017

Rally in Charlottesville?

This is a serious cop-out here, but I see in my twitter feed that the...

August 11, 2017

Fact-checking “Going in Style”

Which we watched last night with the kids in a birthday evening for my husband,...

August 10, 2017

Tech, women, and anti-nerdism

First of all, I'd like to share a bit of a Megan McArdle article from...

August 08, 2017

Social conformity at Google

If you're not living under a rock, you've likely already read about the Google software...

August 07, 2017

How much is a child’s life worth?

Today's Tribune article on children left in hot cars features a proposal to require that...

August 07, 2017

Why I’m not (planning on) seeing “Detroit”

Why am I starting this post off with an image of Michigan as a decal...

August 05, 2017

Immigration, labor shortages, wage hikes, and “lazy Americans”

In immigration news lately (links selected for convenience rather than endorsement of any specific news

August 04, 2017

A tale of two Hollands

Holland, region of the Netherlands, that is, accessible at Holland.com. Holland, town in west Michigan,...

August 03, 2017

A puzzling project

Yeah, I'm talking about literal puzzles, and I couldn't even come up with a better...

August 02, 2017

Guest post: Does Jury Duty still make sense in the 21st Century?

Continuing the series of guest posts, even though I'm back from vacation. Here's Jane Stoneface's...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

The CBO and Obamacare replacements: using the wrong metric

Here's what I'm noticing about Congress's ongoing attempts to create a credible Obamacare-replacement bill: with...

July 31, 2017

The Economist’s alternate take on childlessness

Some time ago, I wrote a blog post asking, "Is Megan McArdle a freeloader?", referencing...

July 30, 2017

Is wealth-building zero-sum?

This isn't so much a rhetorical question as a real issue for discussion. Here's an...

July 29, 2017

So stopping the tenure clock . . . backfired

This, from the New York Times, "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors," which...

July 28, 2017

“Skinny repeal was dumb to start with.” Discuss.

Last night, the Senate rejected the so-called "skinny repeal," in which all provisions of Obamacare...

July 28, 2017

Guest Post #2: Transgendered Military Members: Who’d Have Thought This Could Be So Complicated?

Hi there! Jane the Actuary asked some of us to fill in for her during...

July 26, 2017

Guest post week: Neo-neo-Luddites

Hey, everyone! I'm on vacation this week and have invited a few people to contribute...

July 21, 2017

From BBSes to Facebook: gains and losses

Back in college, I was acquainted with a Star Trek fan and computer science major...

July 19, 2017

A wacky new theory on why we seem to be alone in the universe

From Slate: "A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet." Now, before I...

July 18, 2017

Er, Lady-friend robots, again

(The "again" is because I had previously posted on a similar article, and, yes, I'm...

July 16, 2017

Mosul, rebuilding and blame-shifting

In today's paper, an AP article on the devastation in Mosul: "In freed Mosul, little...

July 15, 2017

I own an Instant Pot!

I'd deliberated about an Instant Pot for a while now, and, in fact, a couple...

July 13, 2017

“Have fewer children” – again

From The Guardian: "Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children", which reports that having...

July 12, 2017

An LA Olympics? Really? (placeholder)

In this case, the question mark doesn't denote whether it'll happen or not - the...

July 10, 2017

A black James Bond?

From the twitter feed today, "Cast Idris Elba as James Bond Already" from The Daily...

July 10, 2017

And that’s why I don’t read fiction!

(Warning! Spoilers ahead!) I tried. My kids, the high-schooler and the incoming high-schooler, brought home...

July 09, 2017

Three bloggable things about the Renaissance Faire

So I went to the Renaissance Fair (or "Faire") in Bristol, Wisconsin, on Saturday, just...

July 09, 2017

Has Detroit turned a corner?

One meme that Glenn Reynolds and others favored for quite a while consisted of listing...

July 08, 2017

Here’s a demographic oddity for ya’

In the news last week: "The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why...

July 07, 2017