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September 22, 2013

Reporting in Der Spiegel

Here are some English-language links:  Photo galleries, and some commentary on the upcoming coalition-formation, and...

September 22, 2013

Why don’t we have a National Costume?

Here's a fun slideshow from Spiegel.de -- you don't have to read German to figure...

September 20, 2013

Still more on adjuncts — what I’d like to see

I have to say, the topic of adjunct professors and Margaret Mary Vojtko in particular...

September 19, 2013

From the library: With Charity for All: Why charities are failing and a better way to give, by Ken Stern

This is quite a downer:  according to Stern, charities are failing, in multiple ways:Their programs...

September 19, 2013

More on adjuncts

True story:  I was an adjunct.My husband and I left grad school, got married, and...

September 18, 2013

The Curious Case of Margaret Mary Vojtko

So a friend of my shared an article on Facebook, "Death of an adjunct; Margaret...

September 18, 2013

Who owns a frozen embryo?

So I promised myself that I wasn't going to blog until after work today, but...

September 17, 2013

Today’s miscellany

Remember honeycrisp apples?  They first appeared a couple years ago, I forget when exactly.  Wow, were...

September 17, 2013

Does “aging in place” really make sense?

So I'm not a gerentologist. I don't even play one on TV. But this is...

September 16, 2013

Pullman National Park?

Editorial in the Tribune today -- a small issue in the grand scheme of things,...

September 15, 2013

“Drink more water”?

That is, apparently, the subject of Michelle Obama's latest campaign, asking Americans to drink one...

September 14, 2013

The future of boys?

So everybody's talking (well,instapundit.com for one, and other blogs, too) about and linking to Christina...

September 13, 2013

Patriarchy?

Quick lunch break here: instapundit.com links to an article by Hannah Rosin in Slate, The...

September 13, 2013

The SPD hasn’t a prayer (parking a link)

So Drudge had a link to this article on the German election, in which the...

September 12, 2013

More on college-educated secretaries (more or less)

So reader "wm13" commented, in response to my post on college-educated folk working non-college-education-requiring jobs,...

September 12, 2013

From the library: Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit

"Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit" is exactly what the front cover says, marketing the book...

September 11, 2013

“Four in Ten College Grads Don’t Need a Degree for Their Work”

That's the headline on a Via Meadia post about a Gallup survey (unlinked in the...

September 10, 2013

A $15 minimum wage? Thinking through the consequences

Look, I'm not an economist.  I don't even play one on TV.  But I wanted...

September 09, 2013

Is IBM’s move to “exchanges” the end of employer-sponsored healthcare as we know it?

In a word, jein. That's what Germans say instead of "yes and no" (ja-nein --...

September 08, 2013

The Anti-Adoption Movement?

Eric Zorn's Change of Subject column links to a New Republic article on the anti-adoption...

September 07, 2013

Let’s talk pension accounting!

Yeah, I know, exciting topic -- but really: it's actually timely and relevant to provide...

September 06, 2013

Overtreated: Why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer, by Shannon Brownlee

This is not a new book by any means -- it was published in 2007...

September 05, 2013

A Down Syndrome Cure?

Per this article linked to from Drudge, scientists have "cured" an artificially-created Down Syndrome-like condition...

September 04, 2013

I am not going to write about Syria (except maybe a teensy, teensy bit)

I had said in an earlier blog post that I wasn't going to write about...

September 04, 2013

Parking a link – on the CATO welfare study

This author at Forbes pokes a lot of holes into the CATO "welfare pays more...

September 04, 2013

The “food desert” concept has jumped the shark

According to this report from ABC News, Whole Foods is building a store in a...

September 02, 2013

Back to food deserts

So I'm back to food deserts, due to a comment I received which interpreted my...

September 02, 2013

Should student loans be forgiven for “public sector” workers?

No.  Next question?That's one of instapundit.com's rhetorical devices, but it works well here, because this...

September 01, 2013

Illegal immigrants and ID fraud (parking a link)

I hate to link from cnsnews.com, because they're so far to the right that skeptical readers...

September 01, 2013

College and Illegal Immigrants: an honest question

So a friend of mine linked to this article, about illegal immigrant kids who do...

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