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October 2013

October 11, 2013
Lunch break!Megan McArdle has a post up on the exchanges, and a concern that the standardized tiers,...
October 10, 2013
Just a gripe:  I'm really, really getting tired of the spammers which show up as...
October 10, 2013
Just came across this today:  the "foodzeit" blog.  I'm attempting, yet again, to make a...
October 10, 2013
In the blog post, "Sex Selective Abortion Gains New Ground in the West," at Via...
October 08, 2013
The blurb on the front cover says this:  "Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what...
October 08, 2013
Well, I'm sure I've been called at some point in the past with election-specific questions,...
October 06, 2013
A while back, I wrote a post on "food deserts" and my belief that the...
October 06, 2013
So people blog for different reasons -- to earn money, to be an author of...
October 04, 2013
I know, you all have been impatiently asking yourselves, "when is Jane going to share...
October 03, 2013
OK, spoiler alert -- yes. Look, there are multiple ways of thinking about and paying...
October 02, 2013
That's the headline in today's Tribune business section.  Here's the link.This makes me sick.  $24...
October 02, 2013
So as my faithful reader(s) will know, I'm a reader of the Chicago Tribune --...
October 01, 2013
This is a great article on government healthcare spending by Avik Roy at the National...
October 01, 2013
Actually, Banned Books Week seems to have run its course. This is the first year...

September 2013

September 30, 2013
Yes, I know that for my readers, this is generally a pretty major challenge --...
September 29, 2013
You know the old saying, "when you're in a hole, the first thing to do...
September 29, 2013
This is a completely open, open-ended question -- are there any candidates for governor who...
September 28, 2013
Ever have an idea which, at least as you're thinking about it, seems so right...
September 28, 2013
I have a feeling today is going to be "put a movie in for the...
September 27, 2013
Here's a comment I posted on instapundit.com earlier this morning: It's foolish to imagine that...
September 27, 2013
Lovely way to start a Friday.  I started looking at The Great Deformation yesterday, was...
September 27, 2013
Yes, usually, the phrasing would be simply "making the case against Obamacare."  Why have I...
September 26, 2013
I'm sitting at the desk with this book in front of me, not sure if...
September 24, 2013
Reading the stinkers, so you don't have to!  Or, that was an hour of my...
September 23, 2013
That's what Mexico is proposing, as reported in various news reports and here, on the...
September 23, 2013
It sure seemed that way.  First Argentina helped itself to the money in workers' individual...
September 22, 2013
According to the exit polls (as of 6 pm), Angela Merkel has handily won the...
September 22, 2013
Here are some English-language links:  Photo galleries, and some commentary on the upcoming coalition-formation, and...
September 22, 2013
I came across this report on collective DC plans (following the model of the Netherlands?),...
September 22, 2013
Here's a fun slideshow from Spiegel.de -- you don't have to read German to figure...
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