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November 2013

November 02, 2013
This story, "Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle" appeared in the...
November 01, 2013
Beginning today, the temporary increase in food stamp benefits ends, causing recipients to see "cuts"...
November 01, 2013
That's one of the top links at cnn.com today, bringing one, oddly, to a "small...

October 2013

October 31, 2013
You know, I used to think of myself as a "crafty" sort of person --...
October 31, 2013
This opinion piece by Kay Hymowitz in the LA Times, linked to by National Review,...
October 31, 2013
I could come up with hundreds of links like this one, the Washington Post's 4...
October 30, 2013
Growing up, the only things I knew how to cook were boxed mac & cheese and...
October 30, 2013
OK, you guys have convinced me: I'm planning on, experimentally, making a point of blocking...
October 30, 2013
That's the headline in yesterday's Chicago Tribune, discussing a lawsuit by the Illinois attorney general...
October 29, 2013
Just for fun (having watched two more episodes last night while folding laundry. . .)!
October 29, 2013
As often seems to be the case, the comments section in this Slate article are...
October 29, 2013
So I was thinking about this the other day -- comments are great because you...
October 27, 2013
So I'm going to summarize this book by memory rather than paging through it for...
October 27, 2013
OK, so I was late to watching the show, just because there are so few...
October 24, 2013
This is how things work in Illinois: all the little people pay their taxes, as...
October 24, 2013
These are the fragments of the piece that I'm planning to write for the Chicago...
October 22, 2013
Dear Amy: I have been married to the love of my life now for almost...
October 21, 2013
So this is an older book, published in 2010, which I happened upon in the...
October 20, 2013
So I clicked on their ad on Nat'l Review online and started to poke around,...
October 19, 2013
. . . and the urban planning difference. Update: OK, when I posted this, I...
October 19, 2013
The fate of German women in the face of Soviet soldiers in the closing months of...
October 18, 2013
So one of the perks of working at home is that I can take a...
October 17, 2013
I finally got new tires on the car yesterday, something that was on the to-do...
October 17, 2013
Look, every conservative blogger out there is full of schadenfreude at the fact that the...
October 17, 2013
So here's the issue: with respect to college drinking, how strong a motivator would, "don't...
October 16, 2013
(The bottom line:  is there a moral double-standard at work in telling women not to...
October 16, 2013
So a friend posted this -- an old NYT "Opinionator" piece about the Path Not...
October 15, 2013
So I've been reading about the topic of unwed motherhood, and here's my working theory: ...
October 12, 2013
Continuing my notes on the book.  (See part 1 here.)Chapter 1:  Beginning with a profile...
October 12, 2013
This is an older book, first published in 2005.  I came across this in a...
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