Remind me…
…never, never, never to appear at a function wearing the same dress as Kate Middleton. Never.
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Fun with statistics: women’s wages
I’ve heard for years, perhaps even decades, that the oft-quoted statistic about women’s wages being so much lower than men’s as a result of wage discrimination is a myth, an artifact of other factors than discrimination. So this sort of … Continue reading →
Remember those Medicare Advantage cuts?
Do you recall that part of the path to the passage of Obamacare involved some manipulation in order to get the proper CBO scoring? There were a lot of aspects to that, including the delay of many of the bill’s … Continue reading →
Jeb Bush: the candidate without a constituency
I’ve heard for years about the Republican “establishment” pushing this candidate or that candidate on the rank and file. Most of the time it’s seemed untrue to me. But it seems absolutely on target with the current talk of Jeb … Continue reading →
Stop the presses: rate of uninsured lowest since late 2008
If this hadn’t happened, now that would have been a shock. After all, if you give Medicaid to a whole new group of people, offer subsidies to a huge number of other lower-income people, and stick everyone else with penalties … Continue reading →
Meanwhile…
…Saturday was voting day in Afghanistan: The strong turnout came despite threats from the Taliban to disrupt the vote and punish all involved in the first democratic transfer of presidential power in the country’s turbulent history. Lest you think the … Continue reading →
RIP Mickey Rooney
Actor Mickey Rooney has died at 93. In my mind, I picture him as an irrepressible young man; that’s the age he was when he gained his greatest fame. As a child, I watched the Andy Hardy movies on my … Continue reading →
Andrew Sullivan asks: what’s the difference between Hillary and Eich, since they both once opposed gay marriage??
Here’s Sullivan[emphasis mine]: Hillary Clinton only declared her support for marriage equality in 2013. Before that, she opposed it. In 2000, she said that marriage “has a historic, religious and moral context that goes back to the beginning of time. … Continue reading →
Before Brendon Eich, they came for the Mormons
Read it.
Continue reading →Mozilla: in the Silicon Valley bubble
The folks at Mozilla may yet live to regret their decision in cooperating with the forcing out of Brendan Eich. Apparently the internet giant has been getting a lot of negative reaction to its jettisoning of Eich for his 2008 … Continue reading →
Don’t worry, folks
I noticed that, for whatever reason, a “worry” theme has emerged today in my posts (see also this). Which gave me the idea for a musical interlude from one of my very favorite groups: And as a bonus:
Continue reading →After nearly a quarter century of global warming worry…
…it seems we’re about where we began: If you look at the chart, you’ll see that, so far, worry about global warming peaked around 2000 and again in the years 2006-2008. I’m not sure what was happening in 2000 (Al … Continue reading →