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March 2014

March 27, 2014

On home-buying

So Megan McArdle is writing about homebuying today, and I thought I'd just comment there...

March 27, 2014

Yep, Detroit is pretty much hopeless

So we're visiting my parents in Detroit for a couple days (yeah, we had The...

March 24, 2014

*THIS* is why our immigration system is broken

When immigration activists say, "our immigration system is broken," I'm not persuaded by their arguments....

March 24, 2014

I have a new cause!

So for a while, I'd periodically see someone collecting petition signatures for a proposed term...

March 22, 2014

Vacation planning?

So I just thought I'd throw this out there: We're very behind in our summer...

March 22, 2014

A different way of looking at unwed parents?

So over at Ann Althouse's blog, a discussion on black families in poverty and some...

March 21, 2014

Just what Illinois needs . . . a millionaire’s tax

Here's the first paragraph in the lead article in the Chicago Tribune today:Illinois Democrats went...

March 20, 2014

Aging parents — a question

So this is the sort of question I'd usually pose to my facebook friends, to...

March 19, 2014

Illinois Primary Postmortem

The election’s over.And as far as the Illinois general election is concerned, it is truly...

March 18, 2014

I Just Voted. ..

And, while there, remembered that I had neglected to look into the Republican primary for...

March 17, 2014

MH370 and “reverse Ockham’s Razor”

OK, I've never heard that expression, and I'm not really intentionally trying to coin a...

March 17, 2014

Is this a college admissions office, or the NSA?

That's the page 4 article in the Chicago Tribune today: "Colleges admissions offices mine data...

March 16, 2014

The Chicago Tribune misses the point on college sports

So last weekend I was in the mood to write about college sports, and my...

March 15, 2014

Parking a link: Foreign Students

This was something that was an instapundit.com link a couple days ago: "Universities Try a...

March 15, 2014

Parmesan, Feta, Black Forest and other injustices in labelling

So just catching up on the news over the weekend, including a report from multiple...

March 13, 2014

Someone please explain this to me:

Putin is massing troops on the Ukrainian border??? I don't understand this. What happened to...

March 11, 2014

“Ban Bossy”?

So what do you make of this new campaign? According to the website, When a...

March 11, 2014

February 2014

February 28, 2014

The 43% obesity drop? Maybe not.

So marginalrevolution.com linked to a Mother Jones article on the widely-trumpeted drop in obesity among...