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May 2015

May 05, 2015
- they just don't support the First Amendment. So reads my (1000th) tweet earlier today,...
May 04, 2015
1.  What's the cost? 2.  What's the content? The background: The Tribune is now reporting...
May 03, 2015
I'm still mulling over Putnam's book, especially in connection with the whole mess in Baltimore....
May 01, 2015
Yes, finally, after having mentioned this book in several prior posts, I'm finally writing about...

April 2015

April 30, 2015
Need I say more? How about the fact that they're hypercritical, about my claimed lack...
April 30, 2015
This is more of a question than anything else: What causes a riot? Sure, we're...
April 29, 2015
That's the cost of a year of private-room nursing home care in Connecticut, according to...
April 28, 2015
I keep dribbling out observations from the book I'm reading, Robert Putnam's Our Kids.  Here's...
April 28, 2015
You've heard this (or a variant thereof) before, right? With hardly any significant exceptions, religion...
April 28, 2015
So once again we have a city in chaos as originally-peaceful protests turn violent and...
April 27, 2015
You know, I used to shop at Target fairly regularly, back when we lived in...
April 26, 2015
Here's a Nicholas Kristof column in the Times today, "Are You Smarter Than an 8th...
April 25, 2015
[what follows is incomplete; I'm working through trying to put the Armenian Genocide into context....
April 24, 2015
[Update below.] That's not a rhetorical question. I just finished reading the article in wikipedia...
April 23, 2015
I'm going to throw some ideas out, half-formed, while I'm thinking of them, and pose...
April 22, 2015
What, you ask, is amigurumi? According to wikipedia, it's "the Japanese art of knitting or...
April 22, 2015
Yesterday I wrote about funding woes in the Detroit Public Schools.  And what should be...
April 21, 2015
Many years ago, in studying for actuarial exams, I recall a reading on public pensions,...
April 19, 2015
Here's my ah-ha moment from this weekend: Earlier this week, Megan McArdle had a post...
April 17, 2015
Earlier this week, I asked, "Who Supports Hillary?" and I've been reading bits and pieces...
April 17, 2015
Yesterday I listened to a training session at work in which the presenter described the...
April 16, 2015
This is what qualifies as "light reading" in my world.  Nothing on heathcare, or pensions,...
April 16, 2015
So, what should we do about women in poverty and/or the pay gap? I don't...
April 16, 2015
I have a few paragraphs drafted up and a few ideas I want to flesh...
April 15, 2015
That's Ted Cruz's proposal: Imagine a simple flat tax that lets every American fill out...
April 15, 2015
I'm still mulling over the issues I worked through in my prior post on the...
April 14, 2015
Here's a piece that appeared in the Wonkblog at the Washington Post last week, "Closing...
April 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton has now made it official, declaring her candidacy in a youtube video and...
April 13, 2015
I'm going to get in trouble for this one, but here goes: Why do we...
April 13, 2015
Here's the latest in the ongoing series of articles on the working poor, in this...
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