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August 2008

August 08, 2008

Olympian achievement

The Associated Press reports on a success story from Washington state, "Olympia [Wash.] mobile home...

August 06, 2008

Change the rules

So what we seem to have here is a no-win situation, a conflict between fundamental...

August 04, 2008

Canada too

It seems that manufactured-home owners in Canada may be just as ill-served by their laws...

July 2008

July 23, 2008

On the line

American Public Radio's Media's "Marketplace" yesterday featured a report on the unglamorous but eminently sensible...

July 20, 2008

FICO, FICO un day

The Associated Press apparently frowns on bloggers linking to AP news articles and quoting the...

May 2008

May 05, 2008

Two scams, both bad

Good piece in Sunday's paper on the PPR -- the poor people's rate, or the...

April 2008

April 27, 2008

Puffy shirt

Identity theft is, at best, an enormous hassle for the victim. At worst it can...

April 21, 2008

Who do we shoot?

Here's one of my favorite scenes from John Ford's film adaptation of Steinbeck's The Grapes...

March 2008

March 14, 2008

Development

That photo is by Dean J. Koepfler of The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. Their...

February 2008

February 29, 2008

More on subsidiarity

The previous post was intended as red meat for a Thursday, but it prompted some...

February 14, 2008

Move that schoolbus!

I need to revisit "Shlock and Awwww: Commercializing Altruism" -- Jon Mooallem's conflicted appreciation of...

December 2007

December 18, 2007

Zuzu’s petals

To fully appreciate the perspective, values and standards of "Movieguide," consider this: They present an...

December 05, 2007

The Rich Fool

My bid for the scariest passage in the Bible is Luke 12:2-3: There is nothing...

November 2007

November 28, 2007

Goin’ mobile

So far I've posted stories from Delaware, Florida, California, Utah and Arizona about the powerlessness...

October 2007

October 22, 2007

Relocation blues

The lead story in today's business section tells us about how "You can reduce the...

October 09, 2007

The long, long trailer

Cathy McKitrick of The Salt Lake Tribune reports on a legislative battle in Utah that...

October 02, 2007

Trailer park heroes

The word "landlord" is pretty brazen, if you think about it. Look at each of...

September 2007

September 25, 2007

Into every generation

The paper today ran an item in the national briefs about a new White House...

September 16, 2007

Sprawlville

Some of us live in a complex and some of us live in a development....

August 2007

August 06, 2007

Protection racket

Here's an astonishing figure: $17.5 billion. That's what banks collect from their customers every year...

July 2007

July 28, 2007

Bailey 1, Potter 0

If you haven't seen this yet, The Roosevelt Institution has put together some of the...

May 2007

May 31, 2007

Wake up with fleas

I'm disappointed with Kathy Ireland (not that I know her personally, but like many American...

May 27, 2007

Perspective

In The New York Review of Books, columnist Nicholas D. Kristof looks at several recent...

May 24, 2007

Guest worker program

Tom said, "Back home some fellas come through with han'bills -- orange ones. Says they...

April 2007

April 19, 2007

Or you’ll sink like a stone

Continuing on the subject of why some things aren't funny. ... This cartoon ran on...

April 15, 2007

Comics, journalists & preachers

Happily, big-time movie director John Rogers still finds time to do a bit of blogging,...

April 11, 2007

Broken laws

"Our job is to enforce the rules," said Orlando police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones, following...

April 09, 2007

Bread and Circuits

Jared Bernstein offers a fanciful take on the recent Circuit City layoffs: Short Circuit, including...

March 2007

March 12, 2007

Harnessing teachers’ greed

Article in the paper today looks at the popular notion of "performance-based pay" for teachers:...

February 2007

February 08, 2007

Who’s the kid?

Here's a nice little profile piece from the paper's ultra-local weekly "Crossroads" section. It's a...

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