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January 2014

January 29, 2014

The “myRA”?

It's been said multiple times that Obama is playing "small ball," preferring smaller executive orders...

January 29, 2014

An Immigation Manifesto

I know I should be writing on the SOTU, or on the Coburn healthcare proposal,...

January 28, 2014

$50 per stitch

That's how much the ER bill was that arrived in the mail yesterday, for the...

January 28, 2014

Dissecting The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act

Is it worth the wait? Is this promised "ObamaCare replacement" any good? Let's call this...

January 27, 2014

From the library: The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois

A change of pace from my usual reading. . . A couple years ago, I...

January 27, 2014

Parking a link: Whither meritocracy?

As I may have mentioned (or maybe not) I used to think I would get...

January 26, 2014

Private Property, “TINA” and “You didn’t build that”

Yet another classic* Jane the Actuary rambling "thinking through an idea" type of post. (*...

January 25, 2014

“Do what you love” (continued)

After having previously written about the Slate article on this notion, and, last night, on...

January 25, 2014

The jobs problem (some rambling Friday-night thoughts)

So, as many of you know, I consistently follow relatively few blogs, but one of...

January 23, 2014

Jane the . . . Chemist?

King of the Nerds, eh? That's what's on TV as I write this, and I'm...

January 23, 2014

What’s the fate of Sears?

I remember when Montgomery Wards died. My parents never shopped there -- it was too...

January 22, 2014

Teachers’ Unions: my first encounter

So my oldest son is starting high school in the fall, and this will be...

January 22, 2014

What about all the 26 year olds?

The fact that ObamaCare allows 26 year olds to stay on their parents' health insurance...

January 21, 2014

Some family history stories

I was going to write up a bit of an explanation of how the German...

January 21, 2014

Parking a link: an immigration sell-out

Mickey Kaus reports on/speculates on potential Republican immigration legislation. Ugh. Why would Republicans in the...

January 21, 2014

Is pot-smoking merely a “bad habit”?

Look, I know that there are significant differences of opinion among reasonable people of good...

January 20, 2014

Parking a link: Chicago’s “Ventra” fare-payment system

First, the link: "Ventra's Costs Put Nonprofits in a Bind." (I don't think this is...

January 19, 2014

On healthcare: what’s wrong with the status quo ante anyway?

This weekend in the blog/commentary world, Avik Roy wrote a piece at National Review Online,...

January 18, 2014

Don’t “Do what you love” – or, an article from Slate that I actually agree with!

Stop Saying "Do what you love. Love what you do." It devalues actual work.That's not...

January 17, 2014

Parking a link: losing the base

Long week at work and still not done! (Hence, the small number of recent posts.)...

January 13, 2014

For Illinois Governor: the endorsement goes to . . .

So I finally got around to looking at the GOP candidates for Governor in Illinois....

January 12, 2014

So what about income inequality, anyway?

So I was writing yesterday about the War on Poverty, and at the same time...

January 12, 2014

PE class — in college?

So this one surprised me: in reading an article, I came across a reference to...

January 11, 2014

We won the War on Poverty. Really.

This is going to be short, but I want to get this core idea "out...

January 10, 2014

Buzzfeed on Detroit

Here's a quick link: "Why I bought a house in Detroit for $500" which, unlike...

January 10, 2014

“Tuition set-asides” in the open!

Here's a link which is probably not going to get anyone (except WSJ subscribers) anywhere: ...

January 09, 2014

Crowdsourcing “101 Fast and Easy Recipes”

What the heck . . . coming off a discussion on Althouse on the non-cooking...

January 07, 2014

From Facebook: on grad school

So everyone in the right-of-center blogosphere is talking about the oversupply of humanties Ph.D.'s, and...

January 07, 2014

Lighthouses. . .

Facebook links: from mashable.com, taken today, andmore from the Daily Mail. Here in the actuarial...

January 06, 2014

Entrepreneurship and Obamacare

Ah, the lazy way to write a blog post: see two posts/articles, connect them together,...