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January 04, 2014
On Professionalism and Ethics
This is that time of year when we actuaries are calculating whether we have a...
January 03, 2014
Legally-dead? Or “dead-dead”?
So I wrote about this before, but the Jahi McMath saga continues, with the parents...
January 01, 2014
What I’m watching for in 2014
So I started out thinking it would be a nice bloggy exercise to write out...
December 2013
December 31, 2013
Open Enrollment Ends March 31st
That's the next ObamaCare metric. Or rather, that's the next meaningful ObamaCare metric and checkpoint:...
December 30, 2013
Gelato
So this isn't really meant to be a food blog, but I figure I can...
December 30, 2013
The Pumpkin Rolls story
So we don't have a lot of food traditions in my extended family, but one...
December 29, 2013
Thinking through death, brain death, and euthanasia
In which I try to make sense of a couple items in the news:First, the...
December 28, 2013
Should the Extended Unemployment Benefits be Re-extended?
So the Tribune is reporting today that the extended unemployment benefits are expiring, though I...
December 26, 2013
On iPads, EHR, etc.
Every now and again, I take a look at the "Legal Insurrection" blog by William Jacobson. ...
December 26, 2013
Christmas at the “the Actuary” household
We're finally past the early-childhood years for all of our children, which means that this...
December 26, 2013
The Freedom from Religion folks’ message is, well, counterproductive
So, unlike many towns, our little suburb had escaped nativity scene battles for many years...
December 23, 2013
The “FAMILY Act”???
So here's something fun: last week, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)...
December 22, 2013
Just for fun: do you think this is an accurate dialect quiz?
This quiz from the NYT was quite accurate for me (though it pinned me to...
December 22, 2013
Reader request — German e-courses?
This is a long shot, but you never know . . . My son is...
December 21, 2013
ObamaCare is not a Train Wreck
It's just not.Look, when a train wreck occurs, the train derails. It's inoperable. ObamaCare reminds...
December 20, 2013
Year-end charitable donations (your input?)
So every year we end up making our larger charitable donations at the last minute....
December 20, 2013
The “living wage” and “Wal-Mart subsidies”
OK, so it's bad form to have two scare quotes in the title of my...
December 18, 2013
What does it take to unionize?
This is, in part, a bit of an elaboration on a prior post. Back in...
December 18, 2013
“One man. One Woman. Or More”
You knew this was coming -- the New York Times' "Room for Debate" subject this...
December 17, 2013
What’s a “fair” wage for a Personal Care Aide?
The Tribune featured a story they picked off Bloomberg today, though apparently the article itself...
December 16, 2013
On Jesus’s birthplace
It occurred to me this morning that having a blog means that I have a...
December 16, 2013
Large Catholic families: they still exist
A decade or so ago, I would have said that large Catholic families are in...
December 14, 2013
Minimum-wage thought for the day
No, I don't mean a "thought for the day" that's worth being paid the minimum...
December 14, 2013
On “Fight for 15”
So I finally got around to looking at the "Fight for 15" website and was...
December 13, 2013
And so it begins . . . the exodus from employer-provided health insurance
I'm guessing that my readers also take a look at the Drudge Report links, so...
December 12, 2013
On the minimum wage
Every now and again there's an article or a blog post or an opinion piece...
December 11, 2013
Is Congress *trying* to destroy pensions now?
I haven't really read much about the late-breaking budget deal yet; here's a Bloomberg article...
December 10, 2013
Parking a link: Mandela’s past?
OK, so I finally finished a big project at work and am a bit more...
December 10, 2013
“Adopt a family”
This is just a 5-minute gripe.This is that time of year when we're all encouraged...
December 10, 2013
In the news. . .
It can't have escaped the notice of my readers that there are topics about which...
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