This appears to be the time of year when bloggers look back, to their most popular/successful posts. But, let’s face it, I’m still a new name, and can’t particularly boast of viral posts. So instead, my retrospective consists of “blog posts I wish had been more successful, because I really thought I had something useful to share” — and I’ll start back with the beginning of the blog, in 2013, rather than simply its move to Patheos earlier this year, and pick one per month, more or less.
1. July 13, 2013, “Vouchercare” — my very second post, in which I propose that the alternative to ObamaCare is in fact to provide vouchers, but without the immense regulation and mandates, and more simply than the complex formulas for subsidies.
2. August 23, 2013, “Have you ever really looked at the financial aid formulas?“, in which I looked at the math that produces extremely high Expected Family Contributions.
3. September 8, 2013, “The Other “Other Pension Crisis”“, my first attempt to coin a phrase.
4, October 19, 2013, “Guess the location . . .“, with an image that illustrates the problem with dense urban planning.
5. December 2, 2013 “Food and housing – Section 8 Vouchers“, in which I observe (in the context of lots of articles on the hardships of families on food stamps, and another round of “Food Stamp Challenge” reporting) that the bigger issue is one of housing affordability for low-income families. Also see “The food stamp challenge (again),” earlier that day.
6. January 11, 2014, “We won the War on Poverty. Really.”
7. February 13, 2014, “On Wage growth — three graphs,” and February 15, “Table of the Day,” on men’s and women’s wages and wage growth. (In the first post, the graphs didn’t import properly from Blogspot; in Chrome, at least, you have to click on the white space.)
8. March 10, 2014, “Adam, Eve, and Human Exceptionalism,” my pet theory on Original Sin.
9. April 10, 2014, “Why no woman president? (A highly speculative post).”
10. June 25, 2014, “Big Cats, and human relationships (updated)” on the seeming transformation of families into Big Cat-style relationships.
11. July 6, 2014, “Reading the Institute of Medicine,” on the rationale for the “free birth control” mandate.
12. August 5, 2014, “Has the University of Illinois gone too far?” on the university’s move towards large numbers of (full tuition-paying) foreign students.
So that’s a dozen from my roughly first year, to start with. The rest to come later.
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