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2016-03-05T22:22:28-06:00

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Daddy’s Special and other childhood meals

Last updated on: March 5, 2016 at 10:22 pm By Jane the Actuary

Megan McArdle has a nice Friday-appropriate piece today, “Friday Food Post: The Economics Behind Grandma’s Tuna Casseroles.” Go read it, if you haven’t already (but please come back here afterwards!). The basic point of the post is that, it’s now rather popular to mocking recipes from the 50s that are full of seemingly-nasty food combinations and ingredients, but we should give some thought to the world our parents/grandparents lived in, in which dining out was a rarity and some foods... Read more

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2015-10-29T09:38:15-06:00

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The CNBC debate: two hours of my life I won’t get back

Last updated on: October 29, 2015 at 9:38 am By Jane the Actuary

Yes, the general consensus is “train wreck.” The moderators, the general consensus is, were fools. They took their job to be adversaries, demonstrating the awfulness of the GOP field, rather than pursuing the job they had been assigned, asking questions that would help Republican voters identify which candidate they wished to support based on policy positions and overall sensibility. Sample question: “Mr. X, my research shows you’re dumb as a bag of rocks. How do you respond?” Which, of course,... Read more

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2015-10-27T07:46:52-06:00

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Money doesn’t grow on trees, and other “healthcare co-op” surprises

Last updated on: October 27, 2015 at 7:46 am By Jane the Actuary

This, from Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, “Insurance startup’s slowdown discouraging“: The recent demise of several Obamacare-spawned health insurers across the country has raised concerns about the future of Land of Lincoln Health as it enters its third year of open enrollment Nov. 1. . . . Land of Lincoln was set up by the federal government to provide an alternative for individuals and small businesses in Illinois, one of the least competitive health insurance markets in the country, according to the... Read more

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2015-10-26T07:51:41-06:00

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Emerging narrative: The Pope’s got a pen and a phone

Last updated on: October 26, 2015 at 7:51 am By Jane the Actuary

That’s, of course, what President Obama announced when the Republicans took the House in 2010: rather than find common ground with the GOP, he would move his agenda forward by means of executive orders, and use his phone to rouse the grass roots (or something like that). Accordingly, he upped the ante, and expanded his prior amnesty for those who came here illegally as children, into a wide amnesty for anyone who themselves brought a child here illegally or had... Read more

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2015-10-25T20:28:24-06:00

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Is it just me, or are the pews even emptier?

Last updated on: October 25, 2015 at 8:28 pm By Jane the Actuary

Within recent memory, the pews at my parish’s main Sunday morning mass, the one with the children’s liturgy, were reliably full, with latecomers standing at the back. Attendance has fallen over the years, to be sure, whether due to the sexual abuse scandals or general societal/demographic changes, but we’ve plodded along. Lately, though, it seems that attendance has had another, rather sudden and steep drop downwards — and it coincides with a new fundraising push, “To Teach Who Christ Is.”... Read more

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2015-10-23T10:56:07-06:00

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Marriageability, etc.

Last updated on: October 23, 2015 at 10:56 am By Jane the Actuary

Megan McArdle had a little piece yesterday on the chicken-and-egg debate about single parents and marriage, in which the Right says, “only through returning to a culture of marriage will poor folk improve their lot in life,” and the Left says, “only through improving the economic fortunes of poor men will women judge them worth marrying,” or something like that. (Mona Charen wrote a column, too, both based on the same panel discussion on the topic.) Which is as good... Read more

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2015-10-22T12:36:48-06:00

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On remarriage: missing the forest for the trees?

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 12:36 pm By Jane the Actuary

Bottom line on top: the majority of self-identified Catholics simply don’t believe there’s anything wrong with divorcing and remarrying, in about the same proportion as they think that cohabitating is just fine, as well and, presumably, were they asked by Pew researchers, would have said that consensual nonmarital sex is OK. Now, some of these folks are cultural Catholics who don’t really take the church’s moral teaching all too seriously in any case. But others can’t be so easily dismissed.... Read more

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2015-10-21T10:48:31-06:00

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Why are women more likely to initiate divorce than men?

Last updated on: October 21, 2015 at 10:48 am By Jane the Actuary

The Tribune has a tendency, especially in the “Health & Family” section, to feature somewhat oldish syndicated articles, and today it was this piece, “Women are more likely to initiate divorce,” from the Washington Post. The key bits: our expectations for marriage, or, more specifically, women’s expectations, have grown dramatically — men are no longer simply supposed to be good providers, but to provide emotional support, to be fun to be with, to meet a long wish list of traits.... Read more

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2015-10-21T07:41:24-06:00

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5 whiny complaints about my new iPhone

Last updated on: October 21, 2015 at 7:41 am By Jane the Actuary

It came last night. After years of refusing to take the company up on its “generous” offer to cancel Blackberry service in exchange for a modest monthly contribution towards the service charges for a personal smartphone on which one loads the company e-mail, they finally announced that they are discontinuing Blackberries at the end of the year. The official e-mail stated that they’ll pay for an alternate device for employees who travel internationally, but I pushed back and got manager... Read more

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2015-10-20T11:29:51-06:00

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Update from Illinois: Illinois Beach State Park

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 11:29 am By Jane the Actuary

Or, rather, as it’s now named, Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois State Beach State Park Cullerton Complex. That’s a mouthful. The label “Cullerton Complex” refers to the fact that adjacent to this State Park, at the far northern end of Illinois along Lake Michigan, is North Point Marina, also owned and managed by the DNR, and “complex” is meant to refer to both these entities together, although, so far as I can tell, there is nothing connecting them but this shared... Read more

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