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October 2015

October 05, 2015
"Florida teen fatally shoots masked intruder who turned out to be his father" -- that's...
October 04, 2015
Yeah, my husband was the photographer here, on an off-day on his business trip, but...
October 04, 2015
1.  Yes, once again, half the country is saying "we need common-sense gun legislation" and...
October 02, 2015
Shooting.  Bad.  Again. Yes, someone'll work out a graphic that says that mass shootings aren't...
October 02, 2015
To begin with, a great many retirees just don't have enough saving for an annuity...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
More on retirement.  Yes, I'm taking a break from the Pope, presidential politics, Planned Parenthood,...
September 30, 2015
Just thinking through some things, in a geeky, yet wholly data-free, sort of way. Stage...
September 29, 2015
You see a commercial on TV for a new immunotherapy medication.  It doesn't promise a...
September 29, 2015
Figuratively, of course. But it's kind of fitting, isn't it?  Planned Parenthood's abortion providers dismember...
September 28, 2015
From ebri.org, that is, the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a table on actual savings, by...
September 27, 2015
So remember when, in that Jane the Actuary sort of way, I spent an inordinate...
September 27, 2015
So this popped up in my facebook feed today: Yes, it's a fake quote (here's...
September 26, 2015
Wow. I just finished watching Still Alice, and I still feel weepy, and I should...
September 25, 2015
I mean that in the sense of "by profession" not whether you more generically plan...
September 24, 2015
I admit -- this feels like homework.  Not in the sense that I feel obliged...
September 24, 2015
OK, one might say, "Timothy Snyder gets it wrong on the Holocaust" but no one...
September 23, 2015
Eh. I dunno. I'm just not all that excited about it. I don't want to...
September 22, 2015
Update on Ahmed Mohamed: The other day I discussed reports that his "invention" was just a disassembled...
September 22, 2015
The news is all over.  Shock, horror at what Volkswagen has done.  Europeans are getting...
September 22, 2015
Back a year ago, I wrote a little piece I titled "Campus Sexual Assault: I’ll...
September 22, 2015
Been meaning to write about this new CNN poll since it came out yesterday, and...
September 21, 2015
The refugee crisis.  Germany has no idea how to handle the situation, and they're looking...
September 20, 2015
My husband was out yesterday and this morning, leading a Boy Scout outing, with 9...
September 20, 2015
So I wrote about Volkswagen yesterday; here's an update, starting with an article from the...
September 20, 2015
Yeah, Peggy Noonan's What I Saw at the Revolution came to mind in titling this...
September 19, 2015
You've heard the story by now.  Boy brings "invention" to school, people think that, because...
September 19, 2015
In which I talk about sex, sex robots, and "needs": Here's a Q&A from a Dear...
September 19, 2015
Here's an article from today's paper:  "VW cheated on U.S. pollution tests for 'clean diesels'"...
September 18, 2015
  Your feedback, please! Dear parents [of 1st - 5th grade Cub Scouts], Did you...
September 17, 2015
Yes, I watched the debate last night.  I took copious notes, somewhat experimentally.  I was...
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