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August 2017

August 22, 2017
In a truly spectacular case of bizarre reasoning, multiple people have posted on twitter variations...
August 20, 2017
Does it matter whether one gets into an Ivy League school or not?
August 20, 2017
Apparently, the white working class in the U.S. have a lot in common with the...
August 19, 2017
It occurs to me that the pro- and the anti-monument removal sides are having two...
August 18, 2017
Subtitled, Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, this little book (125 pages) is directed at upper...
August 17, 2017
We are assured that, with respect to white supremacists and antifa anarchists, there is right and...
August 16, 2017
There's a rally coming up on Saturday the 19th, in Boston, called "Boston Free Speech."...
August 16, 2017
What does that quote from Wargames have to do with Trump, and his loony press...
August 15, 2017
On the one hand, we have "monument fever" -- with an endless array of, not...
August 15, 2017
A while back, there was a discussion circulating on facebook and twitter about how it...
August 14, 2017
My twitter feed tells me it's the 82nd anniversary of Social Security.  So to mark...
August 14, 2017
I want to say a few words about our discourse around the events in Charlottesville,...
August 13, 2017
So this has been my project over the past couple days:  JanetheActuary.com! What's this about?...
August 12, 2017
In 1977, Frank Collin and his Chicago-based National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) "announced its...
August 12, 2017
This is a serious cop-out here, but I see in my twitter feed that the...
August 11, 2017
Which we watched last night with the kids in a birthday evening for my husband,...
August 10, 2017
First of all, I'd like to share a bit of a Megan McArdle article from...
August 08, 2017
If you're not living under a rock, you've likely already read about the Google software...
August 07, 2017
Today's Tribune article on children left in hot cars features a proposal to require that...
August 07, 2017
Why am I starting this post off with an image of Michigan as a decal...
August 05, 2017
In immigration news lately (links selected for convenience rather than endorsement of any specific news
August 04, 2017
Holland, region of the Netherlands, that is, accessible at Holland.com. Holland, town in west Michigan,...
August 03, 2017
Yeah, I'm talking about literal puzzles, and I couldn't even come up with a better...
August 02, 2017
Continuing the series of guest posts, even though I'm back from vacation.  Here's Jane Stoneface's...

July 2017

July 31, 2017
Here's what I'm noticing about Congress's ongoing attempts to create a credible Obamacare-replacement bill:  with...
July 31, 2017
Some time ago, I wrote a blog post asking, "Is Megan McArdle a freeloader?", referencing...
July 30, 2017
This isn't so much a rhetorical question as a real issue for discussion. Here's an...
July 29, 2017
This, from the New York Times, "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors," which...
July 28, 2017
Last night, the Senate rejected the so-called "skinny repeal," in which all provisions of Obamacare...
July 28, 2017
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