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August 2013

August 31, 2013
So I was surfing around and came across this:  Do you know who owns Trader...
August 30, 2013
I'm going to wade into social issues even though this is more challenging to write...
August 30, 2013
So I've been blogging for a good month and a half now, and have realized...
August 29, 2013
Well, except for this one post. The situation really worries me.  We attacked Iraq because...
August 29, 2013
In the spring of 2007, 17% of all households were "doubled up."  In spring 2011,...
August 28, 2013
By Leigh Gallagher.Many years ago, I read a number of books on the New Urbanism. ...
August 28, 2013
The Trib has an article about food desert's and the mayor's plan to combat them. ...
August 28, 2013
See, I'm working on the clever titles. I've been reading The End of the Suburbs,...
August 26, 2013
by Jeffrey J. Selingo.I've concluded that I want to post short summaries of the books...
August 26, 2013
So Bradley Manning wants to be called Chelsea Manning, with feminine pronouns.  Call me skeptical. ...
August 25, 2013
Once upon a time, financial aid consisted of merit scholarships funded by outside donors, and...
August 25, 2013
Will Obama's approach of differentiating financial aid based on how a college fares in a...
August 25, 2013
1) stoplights and stop signs:  Bikers have to stop at all stop lights, just like cars. ...
August 24, 2013
In a way, starting a blog is like fishing, but your lake is the comment...
August 24, 2013
Let's start with the position that ObamaCare is a disaster in multiple ways, and in...
August 23, 2013
Colleges are always talking about how they meet demonstrated need, either through grants or loans,...
August 23, 2013
Apparently, the state supreme court in New Mexico rejected the appeal of a woman found...
August 22, 2013
Yes, I'm again following the strategy of "comment on another blogger's post, then link to...
August 22, 2013
Well, yes and no.  In the UPS announcement (linked to here, at the Via Meadia...
August 21, 2013
Slate is always good for a few laughs. Today's article:  why the government should subsidize...
August 21, 2013
I hope to have time to flesh this out more later, but Megan McArdle has...
August 21, 2013
So this morning, there was a Chicago Tribune article interviewing an author of a book (...
August 20, 2013
What I learned about autism today: So I took the kids to the pool and...
August 20, 2013
The Economist (in this week's print edition, and online here) reports that attendance at America's National...
August 19, 2013
Regardless of what kind of Social Security system the government might implement in the future,...
August 19, 2013
This post is a bit of a placeholder, as I need to dig up some...
August 17, 2013
That's the usual argument, from the conservative side, about why Social Security reform is needed:...
August 14, 2013
This is just something of a pet peeve of mine: "Chicago-style" pizza is not what...
August 12, 2013
Yeah, my post titles are pretty lame. But I was thinking about the fact that...
August 11, 2013
There are a lot of issues with ObamaCare. Some of the largest issues, and those...
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