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November 2013

November 07, 2013

From the Library: American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, by Diana West

So I didn't actually finish this book, but it sat on the bookshelf for too...

November 07, 2013

A short — and completely unresearched — history of nonmarital childbearing

(Look, I wrote this up while proctoring an actuarial exam without internet access.) We all...

November 06, 2013

What part of the term “insurance” do you not understand?

That's what I'd like to say to Amanda Marcotte, writing in Slate's Double X blog...

November 04, 2013

Parking a link: the Tribune on single-parent families

The Tribune, in it's Plan of Chicago series, editorialized on Sunday about the fundamental problem...

November 04, 2013

“Alt-ac”? “Post-ac”? Or “no ac”?

The latest article making the rounds of my small world concerns the future of doctoral...

November 02, 2013

Dissecting another “food stamp hardship” story

This story, "Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle" appeared in the...

November 01, 2013

Also on CNN: food stamp “hardships”

Beginning today, the temporary increase in food stamp benefits ends, causing recipients to see "cuts"...

November 01, 2013

Really, CNN? “Sex Workers Embrace Obamacare”

That's one of the top links at cnn.com today, bringing one, oddly, to a "small...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

And another Halloween has come and gone. . . (plus: a bonus “from the library”!)

You know, I used to think of myself as a "crafty" sort of person --...

October 31, 2013

Parking a link: back to fatherless kids

This opinion piece by Kay Hymowitz in the LA Times, linked to by National Review,...

October 31, 2013

So Obama lied. Now What?

I could come up with hundreds of links like this one, the Washington Post's 4...

October 30, 2013

Mmmm. . . Crock-Pot Round Steak with Mushroom Gravy, or, Tales from a Part-Time Housewife

Growing up, the only things I knew how to cook were boxed mac & cheese and...

October 30, 2013

New Plan!

OK, you guys have convinced me: I'm planning on, experimentally, making a point of blocking...

October 30, 2013

More on Adoption: “Illinois files ‘historic’ lawsuit against for-profit adoption agency”

That's the headline in yesterday's Chicago Tribune, discussing a lawsuit by the Illinois attorney general...

October 29, 2013

So which The Big Bang Theory character do you most identify with?

Just for fun (having watched two more episodes last night while folding laundry. . .)!

October 29, 2013

Diapers, frugality, and poverty (open topic)

As often seems to be the case, the comments section in this Slate article are...

October 29, 2013

Why I don’t (or rarely) reply to reader comments

So I was thinking about this the other day -- comments are great because you...

October 27, 2013

From the Library: The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, by Kathryn Joyce

So I'm going to summarize this book by memory rather than paging through it for...

October 27, 2013

True Confessions: I Watch The Big Bang Theory

OK, so I was late to watching the show, just because there are so few...

October 24, 2013

Office Max now thinks ADM had a pretty good idea. . .

This is how things work in Illinois: all the little people pay their taxes, as...

October 24, 2013

It’s all connected (on single motherhood)

These are the fragments of the piece that I'm planning to write for the Chicago...

October 22, 2013

“Ask Amy” and the population bust?

Dear Amy: I have been married to the love of my life now for almost...

October 21, 2013

From the Library: Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System that’s Leaving Them Behind, by Richard Whitmire

So this is an older book, published in 2010, which I happened upon in the...

October 20, 2013

Parking a link: Gatestone Institute?

So I clicked on their ad on Nat'l Review online and started to poke around,...

October 19, 2013

Guess the location . . .

. . . and the urban planning difference. Update: OK, when I posted this, I...

October 19, 2013

Parking a link: Soviet/Russian historical revisionism

The fate of German women in the face of Soviet soldiers in the closing months of...

October 18, 2013

Aldi is hiring!

So one of the perks of working at home is that I can take a...

October 17, 2013

Rent-to-own . . . tires

I finally got new tires on the car yesterday, something that was on the to-do...

October 17, 2013

So here’s a crazy suggestion on the busted exchanges. . .

Look, every conservative blogger out there is full of schadenfreude at the fact that the...

October 17, 2013

Thinking about the Yoffe “college drinking” article some more

So here's the issue: with respect to college drinking, how strong a motivator would, "don't...