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Babylonia! 27 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Installment 13 of the Babylon 5 Viewing Club! The introductory post was here, The Soul Hunter was covered here, and Born to the Purple was covered right here. After that was Infection. Then came The ...
Meanwhile, Our Children Continue Their Undaunted Assault on Mammon… 27 Aug 2013 | 01:40 am
I have a piece up at the Atlantic called “What’s Really Behind the Ever-Rising Cost of Raising a Child in America“. You should go read (and comment) there. To summarize: the cost of raising a child h...
Who could have seen this coming? Oh, yes… EVERYONE. 27 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
Oh, look! A wall! Pardon me while I bang my head up against it. While I’m doing that, you can read about this measles outbreak (hat tip TPM): The latest measles outbreak is in Texas, where the vir...
Put it away, Miley 26 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
I am a sucker for awards shows. This will come as no surprise to my regular readers. (May God bless and keep you.) The glut of awards shows that lead up to the Oscars fills me with unbridled glee. ...
That time my boat was struck by lightning and caught on fire. 26 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Two years ago today: On Monday August 22 I arrived at my usual departure point with a mother and her two teenage children. We were on the backside of a powerful front that had passed over night, the ...
Monday Trivia, No. 128 26 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
What do these cities, all within the USA, have in common? Coffeyville, Kansas Houston, Texas Lahaina, Hawai’i Los Angeles, California (3x) Malibu, California Providence, Rhode Island San Antoni...
Comment Promotion: Talking about Inequality 26 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am
Michael Drew said People’s concerns about inequality, from what I can see, have more to do with the issue of the lack of growth at more modest levels of income in the light of these exploding returns...
The Education Reform Hero No One Recognizes 26 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
I started publishing my opinions on things sometime in the mid-1990s. It started with letters to the (various) editors of the Kalamazoo Gazette, grew into longer opinion pieces, rambled through variou...
Sunday! 25 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
I realized that I never watched the last disk from Season Four Fringe! AAAAAAH!!! So I watched the last disk from Season Four Fringe. You could totally tell that they didn’t know whether they’d be re...
Just how committed are you to fixing inequality? 25 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
Quoth the Alzheimer’s Association: In 2013, Alzheimer’s will cost the nation $203 billion. This number is expected to rise to $1.2 trillion by 2050. The “nation” they refer to is just the United Sta...
