Archive Index - Jane the Actuary

November 30, 2013

Back from a family visit . . . more on single parents and a father’s obligations

So this comes out of a discussion while visiting with family, about the situation of...

November 28, 2013

“Grey Thursday” and the economics of opening hours

So I'm visiting with the parents, dinner, football, and Pumkin Chunkin are over, and the...

November 25, 2013

My Wish List recommendation

So every year Megan McArdle tells us the best in kitchen gadgetry, and instapundit.com features...

November 25, 2013

On poverty: should we all just pack up and go home?

So apparently this article on poverty has now gone viral -- appearing on friends' facebook...

November 23, 2013

On marriage and parenting – a bit of a theory

So there was a thread over at the Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn's blog, on...

November 21, 2013

A different approach to sex ed?

I suspect I may have written about this before (yeah, I make periodic attempts to...

November 21, 2013

Parking a Link: Preschool for All

This Brookings Study is linked to by instapundit.com: "New Evidence Raises Doubts on Obama’s Preschool...

November 20, 2013

Here’s an idea . . . a different approach to marriage

So I was thinking about this whole marriage thing again . . . here's the...

November 18, 2013

More on Introverts: two observations, and a comment

As a bit of follow-up on yesterday's post on introverts: First observationAfter finding that the recent...

November 18, 2013

What does it mean to be “in the tech industry”?

Yesterday the Tribune featured, as it often does, an article from the Los Angeles Times,...

November 16, 2013

On Introverts. . .

So I was in a funk earlier today and decided that I would reread that...

November 13, 2013

Just for fun: “Mincome”

Yeah, once again, Althouse has found an interesting link and I'm playing copycat. According to...

November 12, 2013

Update on VoucherCare

So I was googling to see what came up in a search for VoucherCare (or,...

November 12, 2013

A “a new and solid floor in the provision of health care”?

That's what Eric Zorn, the Chicago Tribune columnist, is writing about in his blog today:...

November 10, 2013

Who remembers “Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry”?

OK, I know my readership is really too small to ask questions of my readers,...

November 09, 2013

November 9th

Two anniversaries: The first, Kristallnacht (or, more commonly in German, Reichskristallnacht), the night of terror...

November 09, 2013

Single Parenting: It’s about the women?

So a while ago, I wrote a post in which I said that the key...

November 08, 2013

Meanwhile, at my day job. . .

Just a five-minute gripe: I tell myself it's a good thing that the internet browser...

November 08, 2013

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