{"id":591,"date":"2014-03-07T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/03\/things-i-am-not-writing-about.html"},"modified":"2014-03-07T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:54:00","slug":"things-i-am-not-writing-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/03\/things-i-am-not-writing-about.html","title":{"rendered":"Things I am not writing about . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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1)\u00a0 The lawsuit in which a girl is demanding parental support even past the age of 18.\u00a0 (From Inside Higher Ed<\/a>, linked to by instapundit.com a couple days.)\u00a0\u00a0 Some of it is flaky, like demanding they pay her living expenses, but other parts are actually not unreasonable:\u00a0 mom and dad have stopped paying her high school tuition (which I would expect they\u2019re contractually obliged to pay, unless the high school has a flaky payment policy, and in any case, they\u2019re ethically obliged to:\u00a0 the high school has based their budget on a full year\u2019s tuition), and the girl is trying to access a college fund (that is, money that mom and dad have already set aside, persumably in a tax-advantaged fund).\u00a0\u00a0 But the original article, to which Insider Higher Ed links, discussed New Jersey\u2019s laws on emancipation and says that an individual is not necessarily emancipated simply by reaching age 18.\u00a0 This seemed peculiar to me, but also then demanded a fair amount of research, or a lawyer\u2019s expert knowledge.<\/div>\n
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2)\u00a0 The breastfeeding study which purports to show that breastfeeding didn\u2019t make any difference in later-in-life (ages 4 \u2013 14) outcomes. \u00a0(From Slate<\/a>, also old by now.) Apparently, these statistics are based on a small sample, and are only preliminary data, and don\u2019t really address questions such as whether breast-fed infants are healthier in infancy, but presumably only the claim that breastfed infants are smarter.\u00a0 \u00a0And that\u2019s where everything is politicized, with some women using \u201cbreast is best\u201d to demand political accomodation, in the form of nursing rooms or, more likely, state-paid maternity leave or the deferral of work requirements for welfare moms until the kid is older, and others rejecting it because they want to remove anything which hints of a mother being most suited to being her child\u2019s primary caregiver.\u00a0 Personally, I think it\u2019s selfish and stubborn to refuse to even attempt breastfeeding, though my personal experiences also mean that I know that there are many reasons why women don\u2019t, or discontinue \u2014 yet this is a stupid debate.\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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3)\u00a0 Ukraine (I always thought it was \u201cthe Ukraine\u201d like \u201cthe Netherlands\u201d?) and Crimea. \u00a0(Sorry, no link.) \u00a0Let\u2019s just have a referendum, have them vote to be part of Russia, and be done with this.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing anyone can really do about it except have their eyes opened if they truly were so na\u00efve as to believe that Russia is an ally or a peace partner, rather than persuing their own interests.\u00a0 The bigger issue is fixing Ukraine, if indeed it is fixable rather than still filled with kleptocrats who are playing the EU and the US for suckers.<\/div>\n
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4)\u00a0 The upcoming Illinois primary.\u00a0 In short, we\u2019re screwed. \u00a0(My prior thoughts here<\/a>.) \u00a0Rauner is indeed succeeding in buying the election, which completely creeps me out, as is Oberweis, the equally-rich Senate hopeful.<\/div>\n
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5)\u00a0 The Obama Presidental Library.\u00a0 Well, OK, yes, I did write about it yesterday<\/a>, but I then wanted to spend some more time figuring out if, indeed, Obama was constructing a bidding war the ultimate goal of which was to get the sponsors of the location itself to cough up the cash, as the Tribune article implied, but I couldn\u2019t find out more.\u00a0 The official website doesn\u2019t say anything, but just promise more details will be forthcoming.\u00a0 When Chicago was bidding for the Olympics, I was rather relieved that they lost, and this prospect fills me with dread, too.\u00a0 \u00a0Even disregarding the prospect of puffing up Obama, I am so tired of imagining that big \u201cbuild it and they will come\u201d projects will make a difference for a struggling neighborhood; Detroit tries this strategy over and over again.<\/div>\n
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6)\u00a0 The deferral of the elimination of non-Obamacare-compliant plans until after the election. \u00a0(Megan McArdle\u2019s comments here<\/a>.) \u00a0What is there to say?\u00a0 Obama will defer anything painful until after the election.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got one test ahead of us:\u00a0 when the open enrollment period ends on March 31st, will he extend it unilaterally?\u00a0 Prior to that point, there\u2019s nothing new under the sun, just many ways of retelling the same story:\u00a0 exchange incompetence and extensive efforts to get the young men with overpriced, subsidizing permiums into the system, combined with the \u201chappy endings\u201d in the mainstream media of people newly eligible for Medicaid or subsidies.\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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7)\u00a0 The decision by the University of Illinois trustees to include sex change surgery in the student health insurance, at a premium increase of $4 \u2013 $6 per year. \u00a0 (Tribune story here<\/a>.) \u00a0Yes, it\u2019s disconcerting to think that the trustees have made the decision that each student with the university health insurance is now obliged to pay into the fund to provide this benefit \u2014 and, with respect to the prospective sex-changers this also doesn\u2019t sit right:\u00a0 you\u2019ve left high school and are on your own for the first time; would having this benefit push you to making irrevokable decisions before graduation?\u00a0 But, then again, having the trustees in the position of making these decisions is no different than when employers do so, and quite a few of them have already done so to preserve their 100% rating on GLBTQXYZ issues anyway.\u00a0 The bigger surprise was how inexpensive the insurance was in the first place ($582 a year for undergraduates and $752 for graduate students)<\/span>, and yet how much the cited year-over-year increase was \u2014 15% \u2014 until I remembered that the student healthcare clinic on campus is generally paid for through tuition money, and these plans require treatment at the clinic first, with referrals only afterwards; which also means that for good or for ill, it\u2019s probably not really possible to provide students with a choice of insurers.\u00a0 \u00a0Now, whether it\u2019s appropriate to require students to pay for healthcare through their tuition money is another question. . .\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Happy Friday, everyone!<\/div>\n
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