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August 2013

August 31, 2013

I love Aldi. Is that so wrong?

So I was surfing around and came across this: Do you know who owns Trader...

August 30, 2013

Sex and the New Double Standard

I'm going to wade into social issues even though this is more challenging to write...

August 30, 2013

Request to my reader(s): what blogs do you follow?

So I've been blogging for a good month and a half now, and have realized...

August 29, 2013

I am not going to write about Syria

Well, except for this one post. The situation really worries me. We attacked Iraq because...

August 29, 2013

Boomerangs and “doubling up”

In the spring of 2007, 17% of all households were "doubled up." In spring 2011,...

August 28, 2013

From the library: The End of the Suburbs

By Leigh Gallagher.Many years ago, I read a number of books on the New Urbanism. ...

August 28, 2013

It’s not a food desert, it’s a lack of transit/transportation!

The Trib has an article about food desert's and the mayor's plan to combat them. ...

August 28, 2013

I live on the grid.

See, I'm working on the clever titles. I've been reading The End of the Suburbs,...

August 26, 2013

From the library: College (Un)Bound

by Jeffrey J. Selingo.I've concluded that I want to post short summaries of the books...

August 26, 2013

On “Brad-sea” Manning

So Bradley Manning wants to be called Chelsea Manning, with feminine pronouns. Call me skeptical. ...

August 25, 2013

Here’s another thing that bugs me about the financial aid process at universities

Once upon a time, financial aid consisted of merit scholarships funded by outside donors, and...

August 25, 2013

What will it really take to control the cost of college tuition?

Will Obama's approach of differentiating financial aid based on how a college fares in a...

August 25, 2013

Jane’s rules of the road for cyclists

1) stoplights and stop signs: Bikers have to stop at all stop lights, just like cars. ...

August 24, 2013

What I’ve learned about blogging

In a way, starting a blog is like fishing, but your lake is the comment...

August 24, 2013

ObamaCare fixes and “saving face”?

Let's start with the position that ObamaCare is a disaster in multiple ways, and in...

August 23, 2013

Have you ever really looked at the financial aid formulas?

Colleges are always talking about how they meet demonstrated need, either through grants or loans,...

August 23, 2013

Where does free exercise of religion end, and discrimination start?

Apparently, the state supreme court in New Mexico rejected the appeal of a woman found...

August 22, 2013

What I have to say about JC Penny’s

Yes, I'm again following the strategy of "comment on another blogger's post, then link to...

August 22, 2013

UPS cuts spousal health benefits coverage — is ObamaCare at fault?

Well, yes and no. In the UPS announcement (linked to here, at the Via Meadia...

August 21, 2013

The world according to Slate, free childcare edition

Slate is always good for a few laughs. Today's article: why the government should subsidize...

August 21, 2013

Detroit’s pensions – some comments from an actuarial perspective

I hope to have time to flesh this out more later, but Megan McArdle has...

August 21, 2013

Correlation is not causation, childhood hobbies edition

So this morning, there was a Chicago Tribune article interviewing an author of a book (...

August 20, 2013

What I learned about autism today

What I learned about autism today: So I took the kids to the pool and...

August 20, 2013

Is declining attendance at National Parks a problem?

The Economist (in this week's print edition, and online here) reports that attendance at America's National...

August 14, 2013

My regional pizza gripe

This is just something of a pet peeve of mine: "Chicago-style" pizza is not what...

August 12, 2013

International Perspectives on Employer-Provided Healthcare benefits

Yeah, my post titles are pretty lame. But I was thinking about the fact that...

August 11, 2013

Problems with ObamaCare: discontinuities

There are a lot of issues with ObamaCare. Some of the largest issues, and those...

August 10, 2013

Open Thread

Ha! That would be a laugh. Blogger tells me that the "comment on other blogs...

August 08, 2013

Parenting, opting-out, maternity leave, and Judith Warner

(Sorry, this is a long one -- bear with me!)So a week or so ago,...

August 07, 2013

The child-free: a very rambly post

Ugh -- even that term is an irritant to me. We use the suffix "-free"...