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May 2014

May 24, 2014

What’s the last good book you read?

Every now and again I try an "open thread" type of post, with varying degrees...

May 24, 2014

A US-Canada Schengen Agreement?

So a faithful reader, Peter Hurley, referred me to an article he's written on "Opening...

May 23, 2014

A case of sticker shock in health care: what’s the right policy?

This, from Kaiser Health News via the Chicago Tribune:A pair of potent new drugs can...

May 22, 2014

Introducing: the Swap Visa

So this is in the category of "a solution in search of a problem," but...

May 22, 2014

Some hope for Illinois? Or maybe not

The good news: Michael Madigan and Pat Quinn do not yet have the votes to...

May 19, 2014

Religion of Peace? (update)

So the other day I linked to a CNN report on a Sudanese Christian woman...

May 16, 2014

from the library: I Forgot to Remember by Su Meck and Daniel de Vise

So usually when I do these "from the library" posts, it's a book on politics,...

May 16, 2014

How NOT to conduct a persuasive protest

Rain poncho-clad demonstrators demanding $15-an-hour pay circled the McDonald's with signs and chanted in Spanish,...

May 15, 2014

Parking a link: a modern-day martyr

From CNN, a Sudanese woman, the daughter of a Muslim man, has been sentenced to...

May 15, 2014

Is this Illinois politics, or the set of Survivor?

Remember the first season of Survivor? Rich, Kelly, and Rudy formed an alliance and made...

May 13, 2014

Parking a link: Penelope Trunk

As linked to by instapundit.com, Penelope Trunk asks, "what does it mean to be a...

May 13, 2014

Is this sexism?: “Doctors often reluctant to sterilize young women”

That's the article in today's Tribune, a profile of childless women in their 20s who...

May 11, 2014

Parking a link: Afghanistan’s Child Workers

This link is from the Los Angeles Times, but it appeared in today's (Sunday's) Chicago...

May 11, 2014

Mother’s Day and the Danube-Swabians

This post is kind of long-winded, but I do have a point, eventually. . ....

May 10, 2014

Save the world with a change.org petition! (UPDATES)

The kidnapping of over 270 Nigerian girls by the Boko Haram terrorist group, reportedly to...

May 09, 2014

Is Star Wars a waste of time? What about the NFL Draft? (now updated with commentary on pot!)

So a week or so ago, there was an extended discussion on a friend's facebook...

May 06, 2014

Parking some links: on the “is fat bad?” debate

So I'm really not sure what to make of the current spate of articles claiming...

May 06, 2014

“What is truth?” and “What difference at this point does it make?”

So I was doing a bit of pre-work browsing, and read this piece by Kevin...

May 05, 2014

Congratulations, Wisconsin — another way in which you’re better than Illinois

So there was an article in Sunday's Chicago Tribune about the difficulties families of the...

May 04, 2014

Food-blogging: Geschnetzeltes

Here's today's recipe. Foodies will sneer at this but I think anyone who thinks that...

May 03, 2014

Economic Transformations

I never claim to be an economist, just an armchair economist, but this is what...

May 02, 2014

What are you making for dinner tonight?

In an open-thread-ish sort of way. My youngest would prefer no beans in your suggestions,...

May 02, 2014

Another minimum wage guinea pig, and the bls data

Now Seattle is proposing a $15 minimum wage. It's planned to be phased-in over a...

May 01, 2014

Jane’s weight loss secrets!

Secret number 1: Don't snack after dinner. Secret number 2: Don't snack between breakfast and...

May 01, 2014

I have my first troll

Who is quite demanding, and wants me to intensively research immigration and debate him on...

May 01, 2014

Today’s links

1) The Swiss are voting, in one of their national referenda, on what would be,...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

My (belated) take on the university affirmative action debate

I seem to be pretty good at coming up with things to say on the...

April 29, 2014

It’s clickbait, but here’s another link on marriage

Yes, I saw this link on the Best of the Web, and got suckered into...

April 27, 2014

Grocery bag ban?

These are some images of German shopping bags pulled from Google images--The first of these...

April 27, 2014

I’m sorry, but “aging in place” is a piece of *@!%

So we spent Easter weekend with my parents.Dad's in the hospital. He fell, once again,...