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September 2013

September 20, 2013
I have to say, the topic of adjunct professors and Margaret Mary Vojtko in particular...
September 19, 2013
This is quite a downer:  according to Stern, charities are failing, in multiple ways:Their programs...
September 19, 2013
True story:  I was an adjunct.My husband and I left grad school, got married, and...
September 18, 2013
So a friend of my shared an article on Facebook, "Death of an adjunct; Margaret...
September 18, 2013
So I promised myself that I wasn't going to blog until after work today, but...
September 17, 2013
Remember honeycrisp apples?  They first appeared a couple years ago, I forget when exactly.  Wow, were...
September 17, 2013
So I'm not a gerentologist. I don't even play one on TV. But this is...
September 16, 2013
Editorial in the Tribune today -- a small issue in the grand scheme of things,...
September 15, 2013
That is, apparently, the subject of Michelle Obama's latest campaign, asking Americans to drink one...
September 14, 2013
So everybody's talking (well,instapundit.com for one, and other blogs, too) about and linking to Christina...
September 13, 2013
Quick lunch break here: instapundit.com links to an article by Hannah Rosin in Slate, The...
September 13, 2013
So Drudge had a link to this article on the German election, in which the...
September 12, 2013
So reader "wm13" commented, in response to my post on college-educated folk working non-college-education-requiring jobs,...
September 12, 2013
"Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit" is exactly what the front cover says, marketing the book...
September 11, 2013
So I keep intending to be more proactive rather than reactive in the things I...
September 11, 2013
That's the headline on a Via Meadia post about a Gallup survey (unlinked in the...
September 10, 2013
Look, I'm not an economist.  I don't even play one on TV.  But I wanted...
September 09, 2013
In a word, jein. That's what Germans say instead of "yes and no" (ja-nein --...
September 08, 2013
Eric Zorn's Change of Subject column links to a New Republic article on the anti-adoption...
September 08, 2013
What follows is still a draft, really -- I want to fine-tune it and add...
September 07, 2013
Yeah, I know, exciting topic -- but really: it's actually timely and relevant to provide...
September 06, 2013
This is not a new book by any means -- it was published in 2007...
September 05, 2013
Per this article linked to from Drudge, scientists have "cured" an artificially-created Down Syndrome-like condition...
September 04, 2013
I had said in an earlier blog post that I wasn't going to write about...
September 04, 2013
This author at Forbes pokes a lot of holes into the CATO "welfare pays more...
September 04, 2013
According to this report from ABC News, Whole Foods is building a store in a...
September 02, 2013
So I'm back to food deserts, due to a comment I received which interpreted my...
September 02, 2013
No.  Next question?That's one of instapundit.com's rhetorical devices, but it works well here, because this...
September 01, 2013
I hate to link from cnsnews.com, because they're so far to the right that skeptical readers...
September 01, 2013
So a friend of mine linked to this article, about illegal immigrant kids who do...
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