Category Archives: Life

Reporting From Iowa

 

This could be me, but it’s not. It is an intrepid Iowa blogger taking advantage of free wifi, at whatever cost. Picture courtesy of The Hawkeye.
Unlike last year, Christmas Day finds the ground clear of snow after two days of drenching rain, 20 mph winds, and temperatures in the high thirties. In other words, the [...] Read more »

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The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform

 
Today’s Wall Street Journal has two columns regarding the state of health care reform, here and here. The second link discusses health care ‘reforms’ in New York, and how the concepts of community rating and guaranteed issue, while noble in intent, distort the marketplace. Further distortions arise when states mandate fringe coverages that are neither [...] Read more »

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Admitted…..To The Inner Spoke

You may recall a recent post or two about my latest hobby, riding my mountain bike with hybrid tires, wherein I have taken a tumble or two and waxed eloquent on the joys of exercise.
It is great exercise, and just the thing to clear the mind of various confusing academic concepts.
What you haven’t heard about [...] Read more »

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Finding Your Center

What with the start of a new semester and exposure to a slightly different weltenschauung, a lot of "philosophy" has come my way. If you follow my tweets, you might have seen the pearls that recently came from one professor on the danger of using a pda or phone in class. Not for her the [...] Read more »

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A Sunday Drive

The land of the free and the home of the brave.
I was warned earlier in the week that we would be taking a Sunday drive in lieu of vacation. The route would be left up to me, with the caveat that the final waypoint should be a nice place for lunch.
Forewarned means prepared, and assistance [...] Read more »

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