Jane Haddam

The first one is just behind this. But this http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-pardon-these-turkeys/2013/11/27/aa718f32-56c8-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html is truly wonderful, except that it’s so awful.

So, it’s Thanksgiving here in the States, and because it is Thanksgiving, I am having one of those scattershot days.  I got the chestnuts roasted and chopped last night, so I don’t have to do that, but in a few minutes I’m going to have to go chop other things, stuff a turkey worry about…

I was looking around on the Internet this morning before class, and I found this http://www.thenation.com/blog/177350/crowd-sourced-escape-poverty That’s a post at The Nation’s online site about the woman who wrote the Poverty Matters article discussed in the last post.  It’s an interesting article–and, once more, it’s about somebody who has almost nothing at all of that…

I got an e mail this week from somebody alarmed that I hadn’t posted in a fortnight.  I’ve been trying to post things on and off since then, just to show that I’m alive. But I also just handed in the book for next year–the one I was complaining about having so much trouble with–and…

Go here.  It’s the theory I usually see explaining Islamism and Islamic terrorism.  But this is about us. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/blame-rich-overeducated-elites-as-our-society-frays.html  

This is a busy day, but I had a minute, and I found this: http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/11/07/ten_lessons_of_obamacare_100715.html  

There were elections in the United States last night, what are called “off year” elections, meaning races in a year when there is no presidential contest. I am usually pretty up on elections. They interest me in a lot of ways, and not only elections for President. Last  night, though, I  was less than usually…

I’ve just had something very odd happen with the dashboard for this blog.  Most of the time, when something like this happens, it is because I have Done Something to annoy the WordPress program.  Some of the time it is because the WordPress program has updated. I really hate things updating. But it’s into November,…

Okay– Go here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/questions-for-free-market-moralists/?emc=eta1 That’s an OpEd from the NY Times, and I’m sure I’m going to see it pasted all over FB this afternoon. And I’ve got a few things to say. The first is that I know from off that the writer doesn’t understand a word Nozick said. How do I know? Because…

And my grading is done and submitted, which is the good news. THERE’S something that’s going to land me in the hospital some day. But, to get back to the subject– 1) Michael F misunderstood what I meant when I said the working poor weren’t the issue. They may be the issue NOW, but that…