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June 2015

June 12, 2015
In my post the other day on European universities, I mentioned that Students are also...
June 12, 2015
Do you call people by their last name -- friends, co-workers, neighbors?  As in, "Hey,...
June 12, 2015
The context:  the Obama administration is in the process of determining an updated salary threshold...
June 12, 2015
Here's your flaky PC complaint for the day:  "'you guys' is sexist because it excludes...
June 12, 2015
Yes, that's the way people are tossing around this story, about a woman, Rachel Dolezal,...
June 10, 2015
Here's an interesting piece of news, from Kaiser back in May but reprinted in the...
June 09, 2015
who brought home his Poetry Book, what with tomorrow being the last day of school....
June 09, 2015
(If you're missing background on the Sulkowicz story, here's a piece by Megan McArdle with...
June 09, 2015
Remember when Bernie Sanders proposed his  College for All Act?  I had initially thought of it...
June 08, 2015
Somehow I ended up on the mailing list of the representative whose district I used...
June 07, 2015
There was a piece in the New York Times yesterday in which the author defended...
June 07, 2015
Let's start with the old Detroit Institute of Arts commercial I remember from my childhood,...
June 06, 2015
Start with Ronald Reagan's "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech, at Real Clear Politics today....
June 06, 2015
You guys have heard about this, right?  A woman wearing a headscarf claims discrimination because...
June 06, 2015
Yeah, I came across this old ad for the local news crew in Detroit, from...
June 05, 2015
This is an Illinois thing. Here's a link to a site promoting it; this is...
June 04, 2015
Per The Economist, in a preview of their upcoming issue, as tweeted by them, "Made...
June 03, 2015
Yeah, everyone at Patheos Catholic -- or many of us, anyway -- are writing on...
June 02, 2015
Not this. That is a link to the Vanity Fair article, with image, of the...

May 2015

May 31, 2015
Here's something I typed up shortly after LA increased their minimum wage, and am now...
May 30, 2015
Remember when I griped that some know-it-alls thought that the cure for what ails Detroit...
May 30, 2015
So my kids have been watching "Numberphile" videos on youtube lately. Like this one:
May 29, 2015
Funny, earlier today I speculated that devolving Detroit -- that is, letting certain parts of...
May 29, 2015
Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a sovereign state...
May 28, 2015
From the L.A. Times. Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide...
May 28, 2015
Chicagoland readers will recognize Eric Zorn as one of the Tribune's columnists, whose writing has...
May 27, 2015
The kids are in bed, or nearly so, so here are some further thoughts on this...
May 27, 2015
Over the weekend, the newspaper featured, in its "family activity" listings, a set of activities...
May 26, 2015
Upwards of $30,000, right? Wrong. Slate (even the old blind sow. . .) had a...
May 26, 2015
Here's instapundit, from this morning, with a particularly-extended pulling-together of  links on Iraq and Syria,...
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