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January 2014

January 05, 2014

On “the humanities”

So Heather McDonald (whose writing I'm nearly always impressed with) has a piece in the...

January 04, 2014

On Professionalism and Ethics

This is that time of year when we actuaries are calculating whether we have a...

January 03, 2014

Legally-dead? Or “dead-dead”?

So I wrote about this before, but the Jahi McMath saga continues, with the parents...

January 01, 2014

What I’m watching for in 2014

So I started out thinking it would be a nice bloggy exercise to write out...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Open Enrollment Ends March 31st

That's the next ObamaCare metric. Or rather, that's the next meaningful ObamaCare metric and checkpoint:...

December 30, 2013

Gelato

So this isn't really meant to be a food blog, but I figure I can...

December 30, 2013

The Pumpkin Rolls story

So we don't have a lot of food traditions in my extended family, but one...

December 29, 2013

Thinking through death, brain death, and euthanasia

In which I try to make sense of a couple items in the news:First, the...

December 28, 2013

Should the Extended Unemployment Benefits be Re-extended?

So the Tribune is reporting today that the extended unemployment benefits are expiring, though I...

December 26, 2013

On iPads, EHR, etc.

Every now and again, I take a look at the "Legal Insurrection" blog by William Jacobson. ...

December 26, 2013

Christmas at the “the Actuary” household

We're finally past the early-childhood years for all of our children, which means that this...

December 26, 2013

The Freedom from Religion folks’ message is, well, counterproductive

So, unlike many towns, our little suburb had escaped nativity scene battles for many years...

December 23, 2013

The “FAMILY Act”???

So here's something fun: last week, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)...

December 22, 2013

Just for fun: do you think this is an accurate dialect quiz?

This quiz from the NYT was quite accurate for me (though it pinned me to...

December 22, 2013

Reader request — German e-courses?

This is a long shot, but you never know . . . My son is...

December 21, 2013

ObamaCare is not a Train Wreck

It's just not.Look, when a train wreck occurs, the train derails. It's inoperable. ObamaCare reminds...

December 20, 2013

Year-end charitable donations (your input?)

So every year we end up making our larger charitable donations at the last minute....

December 20, 2013

The “living wage” and “Wal-Mart subsidies”

OK, so it's bad form to have two scare quotes in the title of my...

December 18, 2013

What does it take to unionize?

This is, in part, a bit of an elaboration on a prior post. Back in...

December 18, 2013

“One man. One Woman. Or More”

You knew this was coming -- the New York Times' "Room for Debate" subject this...

December 17, 2013

What’s a “fair” wage for a Personal Care Aide?

The Tribune featured a story they picked off Bloomberg today, though apparently the article itself...

December 16, 2013

On Jesus’s birthplace

It occurred to me this morning that having a blog means that I have a...

December 16, 2013

Large Catholic families: they still exist

A decade or so ago, I would have said that large Catholic families are in...

December 14, 2013

Minimum-wage thought for the day

No, I don't mean a "thought for the day" that's worth being paid the minimum...

December 14, 2013

On “Fight for 15”

So I finally got around to looking at the "Fight for 15" website and was...

December 13, 2013

And so it begins . . . the exodus from employer-provided health insurance

I'm guessing that my readers also take a look at the Drudge Report links, so...

December 12, 2013

On the minimum wage

Every now and again there's an article or a blog post or an opinion piece...

December 11, 2013

Is Congress *trying* to destroy pensions now?

I haven't really read much about the late-breaking budget deal yet; here's a Bloomberg article...

December 10, 2013

Parking a link: Mandela’s past?

OK, so I finally finished a big project at work and am a bit more...

December 10, 2013

“Adopt a family”

This is just a 5-minute gripe.This is that time of year when we're all encouraged...