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November 2017

November 13, 2017
Two items: On hoaxes:  "Racist messages at Air Force Academy were written by student who...
November 12, 2017
A beach scene. A pirate ship. A shark. The Stone Army guy from Ninjago. The...
November 11, 2017
So I'm trying to think through the whole mess with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. ...
November 09, 2017
You're likely seen variations on the "what if the South won?" theme before.  There are...
November 08, 2017
There are a number of articles out there about how the GOP is out to...
November 08, 2017
So it's November.  It's getting cold -- the perfect time to start planning, or dreaming,...
November 07, 2017
So I've been watching The Orville lately. Actually, that's not entirely correct.  I have watched...
November 07, 2017
Apparently, this is a thing in Scandinavia.  According to The Economist, SWEDES discuss their incomes...
November 06, 2017
So I'm still writing in general terms about tax reform, since the actual Republican tax...
November 05, 2017
or, "Why Democrats should oppose the state and local tax deduction."  (Part I in commentary...
November 04, 2017
In the Tribune yesterday, "For Amazon's Bezos, philanthropy is 'saved for later'", which turns the...
November 03, 2017
Regular readers will know that my husband is German.  As it happens, he's in the...
November 02, 2017
So remember that scene from The Avengers where the Loki says some things to various...
November 01, 2017
Trigger warning -- for those who are triggered by statements without solid data! Trick-or-treating, it...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
Some time ago, I read a book titled "Is Marriage for White People?" which used...
October 27, 2017
Actually, this is something about which I have no strong opinion. The Catalonian parliament has...
October 25, 2017
Now my car is in the shop. Here's the story: since the weekend, it had...
October 24, 2017
This is a bit of a follow-up to the GAO report I wrote about over...
October 23, 2017
You have perhaps heard of the dust-up at Kirkus Reviews, in which a dystopian novel...
October 21, 2017
Hooray!  The GAO read the Jane Plan and wants to implement it.  Or maybe they've...
October 21, 2017
So, it turns out, the big adventure of the past week in the Actuary home...
October 19, 2017
Step 1: Lower your expectations. Still upset with Trump?  Still fuming about his claim, for...
October 18, 2017
The Boy Scouts, it's been reported, are going co-ed. Well, not really.  Don't believe what...
October 15, 2017
Regular readers will recall that my husband is in the peculiar situation of being a gun-owning...
October 14, 2017
Some time ago, I read a book, which I really thought I had blogged about,...
October 13, 2017
The news today is that Trump has eliminated the Cost-Sharing Reduction payments.  This is a...
October 12, 2017
Here's an update on the Instant Pot, which I purchased back in July: I am...
October 12, 2017
Spoiler alert on a future blog post:  I am reading about payday loans and am...
October 11, 2017
So our local Boy Scout district had its roundtable -- the monthly meeting for adult...
October 10, 2017
It's completely implausible.  Detroit is a wreck in all sorts of ways -- the functional...
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