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Question of the Day -- Swine Flu Vaccination
I got a flu shot one time in grad school; one day later, I came down with the flu. So, I'm not overly excited about getting my kids the swine flu vaccination. I'm also not relishing the thought of the tears and protests in the doctor's office. I'm leaning towards no shot. But the morning shows d...
Just to remind -- there is a big difference between the budget and the GDP. GDP in the U.S. captures private and public economic behavior whereas the budget is clearly only public spending.
Comparative Disadvantage
Get together with a group of academics and the talk will quickly turn to the dismal job market. I ran into my old babysitter in the city over the weekend. Her husband has a PhD in anthropology from an Ivy League and a book, but he's still doesn't have a tenure track job. He's got a lousy post-d...
That article irritated me. More preaching about how Mommies are doing it wrong (gender emphasis in the article) without data.
Talking With Your Children
The New York Times has an article on how parents should put down the blackberries and talk with their kids. You should babble even around babies in order to increase their ability to speak. The article implied that technology was leading to rampant muteness in children. There is no evidence of t...
Based on the conversation here on the blog, it seems that hours of schooling per year is a more important indicator than days of schooling.
American Schools and International Comparisons
Earlier in the week, I posted a couple of links to discussions about comparing time in school in American schools vs. schools abroad, and we had a great discussion about the benefits of a longer school day. In the New York Times, Geoffrey Canada, the president and chief executive of Harlem Child...
http://wrongingrights.blogspot.com/2009/09/wtf-hollywood-or-play-in-one-act-for.html
Entitlement and the Rapist
Roman Polanski was finally arrested for raping a 13 year old girl 31 years ago. He's getting support from very surprising sources, including Woody Allen. I love The View's Sherri Shepherd's tweet today, "Whew...long day at The View...two shows today...hot debate over the Statutory Rapist Polan...
As I understand bj, Jody, Polanski is clearly to be excoriated for being a rapist/pedophile, but the media and the prosecutors are not acting as they are out of concern for the victim but rather for their own benefit.
Entitlement and the Rapist
Roman Polanski was finally arrested for raping a 13 year old girl 31 years ago. He's getting support from very surprising sources, including Woody Allen. I love The View's Sherri Shepherd's tweet today, "Whew...long day at The View...two shows today...hot debate over the Statutory Rapist Polan...
I can't imagine that the U.S. really has been putting pressure on Europe for this one. Perhaps it was the affront of a lifetime achievement award for a convicted pedophile.
Entitlement and the Rapist
Roman Polanski was finally arrested for raping a 13 year old girl 31 years ago. He's getting support from very surprising sources, including Woody Allen. I love The View's Sherri Shepherd's tweet today, "Whew...long day at The View...two shows today...hot debate over the Statutory Rapist Polan...
Hmm. Should I be surprised that Woody Allen is on that list?
Entitlement and the Rapist
Roman Polanski was finally arrested for raping a 13 year old girl 31 years ago. He's getting support from very surprising sources, including Woody Allen. I love The View's Sherri Shepherd's tweet today, "Whew...long day at The View...two shows today...hot debate over the Statutory Rapist Polan...
Thanks for those cites, Amy P. I appreciate them.
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
Amy P., I'm curious, why do you think that housing inflation is going to disappear?
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
Jody, will you marry me?
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
Taking an even larger step back, there's a direct correlation between society prosperity and development and number of women in the workplace. Kristof (and co-author, whose name is escaping me) noted this relationship in a recent NYT magazine piece and in their book currently out.
With women societally permitted to work, states have the ability to dramatically increase their economic growth and production. The collective best solution might be an ideal worker family (2 incomes/producers) rather than a 1 salary ideal worker family.
It might be a kind of sad and tired observation, but it astounds me at how much is interlinked in economics. So much of this discussion seems to be trying to figure out the role of individual thrift, effort and work versus the structural frame the market provides.
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
What kind of jobs do you guys have that one salary goes to stuff like private schools, planes, and second homes? My public school professorial salary is absolutely necessary just to pay daycare, rent for my (incredibly modest) dwelling on a fast and busy street, and student loans.
Although I admittedly live in one of the most expensive metro areas in the world (NJ life, NYC metro). The Warren book, as I understand it, looked at more than just upper-middle class folks. The majority of Americans have a family income much less than my husband and I.
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
Tell the boys that they are the, ahem, Track Masters.
Making Tracks
We made tracks this morning. The stated goal was to make tracks large enough to be seen from space.
Wow.
Making Tracks
We made tracks this morning. The stated goal was to make tracks large enough to be seen from space.
:) Touche on the whole tenure thing.
I heard Warren on NPR. I have been meaning to read her book. It sounds very interesting. I do wonder about the limits of that argument, though. Two income families spend more money and generate inflation. It stands to reason some of the pressures two-income families face would be faced if the world were made up of single-income families.
The idea that all the country's (or world's) two-income families restrict their spending to one income relies a great deal on a collective action that would never occur. That, and two-income families have costs (like child care) that single-income families may not have.
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
I'm kind of baffled by the implications of Warren's argument that dual income families should refrain from "buying the expensive house in a good school district." Does this mean that a family with a combined should necessarily opt to buy bad homes in bad school districts?
I agree that the NYT piece didn't back up Bennetts' argument about the costs of re-entering the workplace for women's salaries. But this was part of Bennetts' argument for the DailyBeast piece. I was surprised that the NYT coverage seemed to imply the ease with which women were re-entering the workplace and becoming breadwinners. This flies in the face of much of the coverage of the recession (with unemployment at 9% -- above that in some places -- and with lags in job creation).
I'm curious -- what sort of evidence exists about the changes in the approach of the business world, and any sense that this sort of change will last through today's economic climate? I read somewhere that the flexible work programs geared toward being family friend had diminished this year. Not that that's the same thing as new recruitment, but it could indicate murkier waters for women ahead.... (Come to think of it, NPR had some folks on marketplace noting that more women were getting hired than men, but mostly because women were cheaper to higher b/c they got paid less.)
Laughing At Others' Misfortunes
Leslie Bennetts writes that SAHM have dug themselves in a financial hole. They have no chance of finding work after taking off time to raise their kids, and it's especially tough during a recession. She points to one wretch of a woman who failed to attend Bennetts book party two years ago and is...
Crap. I should have remembered that Steve and I had similar birthdates! Happy birthday to Steve!
(Did you get enough Thomas cake?)
Weekend Journal
We weren't at all sad that Jonah's soccer game was rained out this afternoon. After a splendid couple of days catching up with old friends and family, we had the gift of an afternoon with no plans. Steve watched football with Jonah and made rude remarks to the television. Ian sat on the floor ...
I dunno, Laura. This stuffs seems quite useful, although I wonder if we shouldn't teach them in college instead. Graduate school, even. I know that my grades would have suffered here: "Time Management - The capacity to estimate how much time one has and how to allocate it."
Did you get your purse back?
Spreadin' Love
Steve and I often plot our future trek through Europe with the boys. I would love to go to Basque country just for the food. Garlic and tomato rubbed on bread is so damn good. We, as a family, are bereft of executive skills. Yesterday, I left my purse in a restaurant and showed up late an hour a...
I think the problem with globalization protests and discussions is that they're so... well.... global. That is, there's a great deal of generalized b@tching but very little specificity. The term is used so broadly that it is practically meaningless if it is not carefully circumscribed. This latter characteristic means that it is great fodder for angry mobilization, but is problematic for deep and specific analysis.
Globalization, and the various factors that make up our basic understanding of the word, is a vast social, political, economic, and cultural frame that produces winners and losers. Sometimes the winners in one facet of globalization (Mexican truck drivers, for example, more employed after NAFTA) are the losers in others (they vulnerable to the collapse of the Mexican state due to the expansion of the drug trade).
So, Laura, I see no contradiction in your seeming divergent views on organic foods and blogging.
Anti-Globalization
There has been a request for a post on the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. We here at 11D aim to please, so here goes. I am fascinated by the anti-globalization protests. Flashmobs are amazing. I have some sympathies for their concerns. In about twenty minutes, I'll be heading over to the local farm...
As a good Southern girl myself, I want to confirm the complexity of the South as well. This is the land of William Faulkner, grits, wondrous sweetened iced tea, Truman Capote and Julia Roberts. Clearly they'e (we?) doing something right amidst all it seems they're (we?) doing wrong.
Fun With Charts
Two charts caught my eye this week. I swiped this one from Andrew Sullivan. The Washington Post's website is dipping, while HuffPost is slowly increasing in popularity. Wowsies. Even though JT scorns the colors, this chart is also awesome. It was swiped from Steve Benen. Why is the So...
Amy P: "Mom, I'm not suffering! I'm staying happy!" Priceless.
The Marshmallow Test
I've blogged about the Marshmallow test. Here's the video evidence. I still want to do this experiment on my niece. Why have kids, if you don't play with their minds? Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.
MH -- point well made. I have lots of respect for COW. It is a indeed a useful tool.
Gender and Political Science
Last week, Dan Drezner wrote a light post about a recent study, which found that a man's brain will slow down, after talking to an attractive woman. He then discusses how this finding might explain behavior by world leaders. It was a humorous, Drezner-ish post, which I skimmed in Google Reader l...
No kidding. I'm not getting any work done, Doug, and it's all your fault. It's business hours in NJ.
(Plus I can't help but observe that the Euro posts you referenced in the other post on book publishers do not, in fact, address problems of separatism in Russia and Georgia. Although they are indirectly linked to the subject matter.)
Gender and Political Science
Last week, Dan Drezner wrote a light post about a recent study, which found that a man's brain will slow down, after talking to an attractive woman. He then discusses how this finding might explain behavior by world leaders. It was a humorous, Drezner-ish post, which I skimmed in Google Reader l...
fair enough. it was attempting humor.
Gender and Political Science
Last week, Dan Drezner wrote a light post about a recent study, which found that a man's brain will slow down, after talking to an attractive woman. He then discusses how this finding might explain behavior by world leaders. It was a humorous, Drezner-ish post, which I skimmed in Google Reader l...
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