This blog was surprisingly influential this year, mostly by getting people, including a couple of U.S. Senators, to pay attention to the Obamacare-opioid connection. Fortunately, my pseudonymous life hasn’t come back to bite me in my non-pseudonymous butt yet. Traffic was distributed across posts in a Pareto distribution:
Also, there’s An Extended Dance remix of 13 Ways of Going on a Field Trip (Longer! More Tendentious! Still Not Proofread!) available on Kindle or paperback.
Rank | Post | Number of Views |
Link |
1 | Getting Your Owl | 17701 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/getting-your-owl/ |
2 | Some Stronger Evidence that the Affordable Care Act Worsened the Opioid Crisis | 5016 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/some-stronger-evidence-that-the-affordable-care-act-worsened-the-opioid-crisis/ |
3 | The Zero-Sum Society | 2521 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/the-zero-sum-society/ |
4 | Early Arrival | 2340 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/early-arrival/ |
5 | The Wire, (Not Quite) Ten Years Later | 1740 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/the-wire-ten-years-later/comment-page-1/ |
6 | Obamacare didn’t help | 1732 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/obamacare-didnt-help/ |
7 | Radical Privilege | 1704 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/radical-privilege/ |
8 | The Retreat | 1657 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/the-retreat/ |
9 | Middle-Class Kids Aren’t Magic Pixie Dust | 1631 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/middle-class-kids-arent-magic-pixie-dust/ |
10 | The Best Parts of Life are Social Constructs | 1526 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/the-best-parts-of-life-are-social-constructs/ |
11 | The Non-Racism of American Evil | 1364 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/the-non-racism-of-american-evil/ |
12 | Two Sided Tango | 1227 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/two-sided-markets-and-diversity/ |
13 | Inside and Outside the Cage | 1126 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/inside-and-outside-the-cage/ |
14 | Maybe They Didn’t Want to Hear What He Had to Say | 1125 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/maybe-they-didnt-want-to-hear-what-he-had-to-say/ |
15 | Places, not Programs | 999 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/places-not-programs/ |
16 | See No Bell Curve, Hear No Bell Curve, Speak No Bell Curve | 901 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/see-no-bell-curve-hear-no-bell-curve-speak-no-bell-curve/ |
17 | Kung Fu Panda and Meritocracy | 870 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/kung-fu-panda-and-meritocracy/ |
18 | Good and Bad Arguments Against the Obamacare-Opiate Effect | 861 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/good-and-bad-arguments-against-the-obamacare-opiate-effect/ |
19 | The Truth is More Interesting than Lies | 860 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/the-truth-is-more-interesting-than-lies/ |
20 | Like Sherman Through Georgia | 811 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/like-sherman-through-georgia/ |
21 | Summary of Posts on the Obamacare-Opioid Connection | 781 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/summary-of-posts-on-the-obamacare-opioid-connection/ |
22 | Did Ta-Nehisi Coates Make Donald Trump President? | 732 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/did-ta-nehisi-coates-make-donald-trump-president/ |
23 | There are two Americas… | 713 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/there-are-two-americas/ |
24 | With two cats in the yard life used to be so hard | 665 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/with-two-cats-in-the-yard-life-used-to-be-so-hard/ |
25 | 2010s Identity Politics as Hostile AI | 653 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/2010s-identity-politics-as-hostile-ai/ |
26 | The Good Enough Society | 650 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/the-good-enough-society/ |
27 | On Teach for America and Immigration Policy | 650 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/on-teach-for-america-and-immigration-policy/ |
28 | Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle | 643 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle/ |
29 | Cause I’m built for comfort, I ain’t built for speed | 628 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/cause-im-built-for-comfort-i-aint-built-for-speed/ |
30 | Because that’s where the houses are, because that’s who the kids are | 613 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/because-thats-where-the-houses-are-because-thats-who-the-kids-are/ |
31 | Diversity Lags | 611 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/diversity-lags/ |
32 | The Way to Win Elections is to Win Elections | 603 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-way-to-win-elections-is-to-win-elections/ |
33 | The Rise and Fall of the Bourgeois Era | 585 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bourgeois-era/ |
34 | I came to this country 241 years ago. Now I feel like I don’t belong here. | 572 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/i-came-to-this-country-241-years-ago-now-i-feel-like-i-dont-belong-here/ |
35 | They All Did | 570 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/they-all-did/ |
36 | Harlem, America’s Most Famous Neighborhood, is Not a Place of Ruin and Despair | 568 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/harlem-americas-most-famous-neighborhood-is-not-a-place-of-ruin-and-despair/comment-page-1/ |
37 | Engine Running Cold | 567 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/engine-running-cold/ |
38 | Constitutional Calvinball, in Private and in Public | 566 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/constitutional-calvinball-in-private-in-the-public/ |
39 | Separate Problems | 545 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/separate-problems/ |
40 | They’re Bringing Drugs | 539 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/theyre-bringing-drugs/comment-page-1/ |
41 | Everybody’s a Platonist, Nobody’s an Aristotelian | 538 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/everybodys-a-platonist-nobodys-an-aristotelian/ |
42 | Oh, the Times they are a-Changin | 537 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/oh-the-times-they-are-a-changin/ |
43 | Have your toast and eat it too | 535 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/have-your-toast-and-eat-it-too/ |
44 | Personalized medicine won’t work, but race-based medicine probably will | 532 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/personalized-medicine-wont-work-but-race-based-medicine-probably-will/ |
45 | Posterity Environmentalism | 529 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/posterity-environmentalism/ |
46 | People aren’t acting like climate change is very dangerous | 519 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/people-arent-acting-like-climate-change-is-very-dangerous/ |
47 | When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto | 515 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/when-you-say-tomato-and-your-sister-says-tomahto/ |
48 | Thank God for Mom and Dad For Sticking Two Together | 512 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/thank-god-for-mom-and-dad-for-sticking-two-together-cause-i-dont-know-how/ |
49 | The More Things Change… | 504 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-more-things-change/ |
50 | It’s Opioids, not “Dying from Despair, that’s driving the Obamacare Effect” | 502 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/its-opioids-not-dying-from-despair-thats-driving-the-obamacare-effect/ |
51 | The Fulcrum | 493 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/the-fulcrum/ |
52 | Hubel, Wiesel, and Sensitive Periods | 490 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/hubel-wiesel-and-sensitive-periods/ |
53 | Tora Bora | 489 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/tora-bora/ |
54 | “Neoliberalism and “The Cathedral” are the Same Damn Thing” | 488 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/neoliberalism-and-the-cathedral-are-the-same-damn-thing/comment-page-1/ |
55 | Say you don’t need no diamond ring | 472 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/say-you-dont-need-no-diamond-ring/ |
56 | Colleagues and Friends | 463 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/colleagues-and-friends/ |
57 | American Kids, American Schools | 461 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/american-kids-american-schools/ |
58 | Cui bono, ad quod damnum | 461 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/i-dont-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/comment-page-1/ |
59 | I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means | 459 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/i-dont-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/comment-page-1/ |
60 | “Saxons vs. Vikings” | 453 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/saxons-vs-vikings/ |
61 | Prozac Nation | 449 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/prozac-nation/ |
62 | Rock and a Hard Place | 446 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/rock-and-a-hard-place/ |
63 | The (Older) Kids and their Parents are not All Right | 444 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/the-older-kids-and-their-parents-are-not-all-right/ |
64 | Rolling the 20 Sided Dice | 437 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/rolling-the-20-sided-dice/ |
65 | Axis of Weasel | 436 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/david-frum/ |
66 | The Democrats Will Win When They Are Ready to Be Boring | 430 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/the-democrats-will-win-when-they-are-ready-to-be-boring/ |
67 | It’s Still the Same Old Story | 420 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/its-still-the-same-old-story/ |
68 | Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose | 415 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/freedoms-just-another-word-for-nothin-left-to-lose/ |
69 | Empire State of Mind | 411 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/empire-state-of-mind/comment-page-1/ |
70 | The Alt-Right and the Underground Man | 409 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/the-alt-right-and-the-underground-man/ |
71 | Reasons for Rallies | 409 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/reasons-for-rallies/ |
72 | A Consequential Decision | 397 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/a-consequential-decision/ |
73 | Not the EITC, anything but the EITC | 396 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/not-the-eitc-anything-but-the-eitc/ |
74 | An Unhappy Family in an Unhappy Land | 394 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/an-unhappy-family-in-an-unhappy-land/ |
75 | Marriage and the Obamacare Effect | 386 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/marriage-and-the-obamacare-effect/ |
76 | Our Forefathers | 376 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/our-forefathers/ |
77 | Vacant Lots, Seen and Unseen | 375 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/vacant-lots/ |
78 | The Fake News We Want | 371 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/the-fake-news-we-want/comment-page-1/ |
79 | Driven Pendulum | 370 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/driven-pendulum/ |
80 | The Not-Quite-Law of the Canadian Border | 369 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/the-not-quite-law-of-the-canadian-border/ |
81 | everybody comes to Hollywood/they wanna make it in the neighborhood | 367 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/everybody-comes-to-hollywoodthey-wanna-make-it-in-the-neighborhood/ |
82 | A simple minded approach | 363 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/a-simple-minded-approach/ |
83 | The Beehive | 358 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/the-beehive/comment-page-1/ |
84 | The Nothing | 356 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/the-nothing/ |
85 | Legalize It? | 350 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/legalize-it/ |
86 | One of these things is not like the other | 349 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/ |
87 | Sample Size and Sneetches | 348 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/sample-size-and-sneetches/ |
88 | Free Speech at Blueberry Park | 345 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/free-speech-at-blueberry-park/ |
89 | Getting on the Schoolbus | 344 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/getting-on-the-schoolbus/ |
90 | Ode to Man | 342 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/ode-to-man/ |
91 | Diversity and Student Achievement | 340 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/diversity-and-student-achievement/ |
92 | Star Wars and Identitarian Power | 339 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/star-wars-and-identitarian-power/ |
93 | Incentives and the Iron Law | 337 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/the-talent-show/ |
94 | The Talent Show | 332 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/the-talent-show/ |
95 | Monk at 100 | 332 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/monk-at-100/ |
96 | Why Do You Think They Call It the White House | 327 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/why-do-you-think-they-call-it-the-white-house/ |
97 | The Wings of Atalanta | 325 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/the-wings-of-atalanta/ |
98 | Mo Money Mo Babies (among Native-born men) | 324 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/mo-money-mo-babies-among-native-born-men/ |
99 | Oh, they were looking for their Missing Piece | 322 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/oh-im-looking-for-my-missing-piece/ |
100 | More of the Same | 319 | https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/more-of-the-same/ |
101 | The Beloved Community and the Bourgeois Society | 310 | |
102 | Unwanted Advances | 308 | |
103 | Climate Action Includes Adaptation | 308 | |
104 | Learned it from watching you | 305 | |
105 | Bigger Stocks, Slower Flows | 297 | |
106 | Black Religiosity in the Obama Years | 297 | |
107 | The Pennsylvania Desert | 295 | |
108 | Technocracy Can Only Thrive When It Lies | 295 | |
109 | The Woman Question | 294 | |
110 | A Partial Success | 289 | |
111 | Sandy Hook | 285 | |
112 | Mighty, Maybe Not Whitey | 284 | |
113 | Lots of Bad Things are Pro-Cyclical | 283 | |
114 | Adequate Yearly Progress | 280 | |
115 | Political Parties Should Try to be Popular | 279 | |
123 | “Schools that Work”,264 Neoteny as Ashenfelter’s Dip” |
277 | |
124 | Health Affairs Blog Confirms Health Insurance is Bad for You | 269 | |
125 | Poverty is not easy to solve | 268 | |
126 | Chris Eisgruber and the Inversion of Power | 267 | |
127 | Regional Differences in Personality and the Opioid Epidemic | 266 | |
128 | The Year in Toadspotting | 265 | |
129 | Obesity is important for mortality, but it’s not the reason for the Obamacare effect | 264 | |
130 | A Westeros of One’s Own | 262 | |
131 | It’s True for Counties, Too | 262 | |
132 | Erving Goffman on Alice Goffman | 261 | |
133 | The Destruction of Merv | 257 | |
134 | Fade-Out and Within-Subject Design | 255 | |
135 | The g-loaded Common Core | 255 | |
136 | To Be A Jew | 254 | |
137 | Vo-Tech | 250 | |
138 | Trump Country | 249 | |
139 | About that 10,000 | 242 | |
140 | Trump’s Budget Does Not Cut Elementary and Secondary Education | 235 | |
141 | The Boulder and the Mountain Range | 233 | |
142 | Spotted Toad Radio Hour, Episode 3 | 228 | |
143 | Compassion and a Buck Fifty | 226 | |
144 | The Power of Rhetorical Radicalism | 225 | |
145 | Value Added Modeling and Behavioral Genetics | 225 | |
146 | Everything isn’t Going to Hell Quite Yet | 224 | |
147 | The Interest Rate is a Price, not a Prediction | 216 | |
148 | Rogue One of Many | 216 | |
149 | Danse Macabre | 216 | |
150 | Big and Little | 213 | |
151 | Bruenighazi, and Why It’s So Hard for Hillary to Finish Bernie Off | 213 | |
152 | Cheek by Jowl | 213 | |
153 | Black Parents Are Pretty Well Involved in their Kids’ Education | 212 | |
154 | Spend the Money | 211 | |
155 | Off-Script | 211 | |
156 | Spotted Toad Radio Hour, Part 4 | 208 | |
157 | The Sociology of Sesame Street | 208 | |
158 | Some day we’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun | 198 | |
159 | The Political Economy of the Minimum Wage | 195 | |
160 | Scalia and the Battle Royale | 193 | |
161 | The Martian Moment | 191 | |
162 | Happy Holidays | 190 | |
163 | Love and Marriage | 190 | |
164 | Social Science’s Two Masks | 183 | |
165 | Van Gogh Night | 183 | |
166 | Two Types of Discipline Problems | 180 | |
167 | Shakespeare’s Prince | 179 | |
168 | Snicket and Swift | 170 | |
169 | The Committee for Managing the Common Affairs of the Whole Bourgeoisie | 169 | |
170 | Everyone is Ethnic | 165 | |
171 | Fade In, Fade Out | 163 | |
172 | The Race to the Swift and the Merits of Meritocracy | 162 | |
173 | NEETs | 160 | |
174 | The Fundamental Problem in the Political Logic of 2016 Feminism… | 160 | |
175 | The Cultural is the Technological | 160 | |
176 | Privilege and Luck | 159 | |
177 | Disaggregating by gender | 157 | |
178 | No, the Achievement Gap isn’t About Teachers | 156 | |
179 | Trenton Makes, the World Takes | 156 | |
180 | The HR Department’s Perfect Candidate | 156 | |
181 | One’s Place in the Distribution | 156 | |
182 | Stranger Caves | 155 | |
183 | Hierarchy, McCloskey, and Moldbug | 153 | |
184 | TFA (Doesn’t Quite) Respond to DeVos | 151 | |
185 | The Obamacare Effect on Overdoses Got Bigger in 2016 | 150 | |
186 | Economic Life is About Choices, Not Just Tasks | 148 | |
187 | Free Range Kids | 147 | |
188 | Matt Yglesias Argues On Behalf of Trumpism | 147 | |
189 | In Praise of HBCUs | 145 | |
190 | The Green Beards of Eton | 144 | |
191 | The Other Elephant in the Room | 141 | |
192 | Give me your caffeinated, your well-off, your above-average yearning to get ahead | 140 | |
193 | The Recent Past, the Distant Past, and the Depth of Time | 139 | |
194 | Hey Paul Krugman | 139 | |
195 | Du Bois and Washington, Yesterday and Today | 138 | |
196 | Plausible Deniability | 138 | |
197 | 3 Books for the Walter White in All of Us | 137 | |
198 | The Crisis on Campus, Then and Now | 137 | |
199 | The Pleasures of Socialism | 135 | |
200 | But What is the Intervention? | 135 | |
201 | Gender Identity and Diversity | 131 | |
202 | Why is Tolstoy Modern? | 131 | |
203 | The Rainforest and the Salt Marsh | 129 | |
204 | Poverty and Cash Transfers | 128 | |
205 | Boys Versus Girls | 125 | |
206 | Aristotle, Usury, and Land in the 21st Century | 125 | |
207 | The Cultural Production Function | 124 | |
208 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, June 9: Cole Porter | 124 | |
209 | Fools and Charlatans | 121 | |
210 | Give For, Don’t Give Against | 120 | |
211 | Faust and Mephistopheles | 120 | |
212 | Toad’s Corollary | 118 | |
213 | 2016 County-Level Estimates of the Obamacare/Overdose Effect | 118 | |
214 | Vengeance on Whom | 117 | |
215 | You Can’t Get Away from Morality | 116 | |
216 | KIPP | 116 | |
217 | Where have all the George Kennans Gone | 115 | |
218 | Correlates of Middle-Aged White Mortality | 113 | |
219 | Euthyphro and Political Anger | 112 | |
220 | Don’t call it a comeback | 111 | |
221 | #TFA25 | 109 | |
222 | California Dreamin’ | 107 | |
223 | “All Men are Created Equal is About the Rules of The Game | 107 | |
224 | People Want to Work | 107 | |
225 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, August 16: Bill Evans | 107 | |
226 | Brown v. Board Wasn’t a Total Failure | 107 | |
227 | Tolerance and Freedom | 106 | |
228 | The Opposite of the End of History | 106 | |
229 | Rafe Esquith and Atticus Finch | 106 | |
230 | Bannon and Mammon | Not the Quality of the Players” | |
231 | Worthy Children | 106 | |
232 | All-American High School | 105 | |
233 | Winning Isn’t the Only Thing | 104 | |
234 | The 47% | 104 | |
235 | The State as a Work of Art | 102 | |
236 | DeVos Isn’t Gonna Gut Public Education | 101 | |
237 | The Problem with Moving to Opportunity in One NYC Map | 101 | |
238 | The Magic Kingdom of Intellectual Property | 98 | |
239 | Before and After | 98 | |
240 | Limousine Libs | 96 | |
241 | Hamilton and Shared Experience | 95 | |
242 | The Two Door Riddle | 93 | |
243 | Family Portraits | 92 | |
244 | The Lottery | 92 | |
245 | Trump and Chetty | 91 | |
246 | what we talk about when we talk about schools | 90 | |
247 | West Virginia, or the Bad News Takes a Long Time to Arrive | 90 | |
248 | There are Worse Things than Hypocrisy | 87 | |
249 | Causes of the financial crisis | 87 | |
250 | Christmas Entertainments | 86 | |
251 | General Equilibrium Effects | 86 | |
252 | More Than One Thing Can Be True | 86 | |
253 | Home Visits | 86 | |
254 | Wobbly Table | 85 | |
255 | Section Sheets | 85 | |
256 | Bad Bets | 84 | |
257 | Boosting the R-Squared | 84 | |
258 | Philadelphia Stories | 83 | |
259 | Spottedtoad Radio Hour, Episode 1 | 82 | |
260 | A Conversation with the Emergent Global Super-Intelligence of the Internet | 82 | |
261 | Conservatism Happens When No One is Paying Attention | 82 | |
262 | Against Unidimensionality | 81 | |
263 | The Peacock’s Tail | 81 | |
264 | The Rat Temple | 80 | |
265 | The Open Classroom Door | 80 | |
266 | Having Slain Égalité and Liberté, Harvard Takes Aim at Fraternité | 79 | |
267 | Work It | 79 | |
268 | The Gelman View | 78 | |
269 | The Peaceable Kingdom | 78 | |
270 | Overstated and Understated Effects | 77 | |
271 | The First Law of Educational Inefficacy | 76 | |
272 | Louis Armstrong and the Spirit of a City | 76 | |
273 | Diminishing Returns and its Discontents | 75 | |
274 | Releasers and Superreleasers | 75 | |
275 | The Certainty of Others | 75 | |
276 | Rolling Stones | 74 | |
277 | Genetics is a Process | 74 | |
278 | Obama’s Creed | 73 | |
279 | Two Kinds of Diminishing Returns | 73 | |
280 | The Electric Slide | 72 | |
281 | Brahe, Kepler, Newton | 72 | |
282 | Model, Mirror, Mentor | 71 | |
283 | The Problem is Power | 71 | |
284 | Obama and Teacher Evaluation | 71 | |
285 | Qualitative and Quantitative | 71 | |
286 | Vegas and Anti-Vegas | 71 | |
287 | The Castle and the Forest Sauvage | 70 | |
288 | Emma and Jackie | 70 | |
289 | Compared to What | 70 | |
290 | Black Rocky | 70 | |
291 | Mismatch Under the Mountain | 68 | |
292 | The Joke’s On Us | 68 | |
293 | Microbes Matter | 68 | |
294 | The Progressive Ethos in Education | 68 | |
295 | 1215 and All That | 67 | |
296 | Rationalia’s Rot | 67 | |
297 | In the Long Run, Demand Curves Slope Down (or, Sometimes, The Rent is Too Damn Low) | 66 | |
298 | Old and Young | 66 | |
299 | Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic | 64 | |
300 | When I’m 64 | 64 | |
301 | 13 Ways of Going on a Field Trip | 64 | |
302 | Three Dimensions of Classroom Planning | 64 | |
303 | Dog Days of Summer | 64 | |
304 | New Lamps For Old | 62 | |
305 | America has a Gigantic Bourgeoisie | 62 | |
306 | Goya Beans and Wild Plants | 60 | |
307 | School Lunched | 59 | |
308 | Walking While Black | 59 | |
309 | America is a rich country, continued | 59 | |
310 | He Didn’t Do Nuthin’ | 59 | |
311 | The Turmoil of Speech About Us | 57 | |
312 | Charles Dodgson Explains American Educational Policy | 57 | |
313 | Miles Davis on Prince | 56 | |
314 | Open Up the Hood and Check Out the Engine | 56 | |
315 | Tips for Teachers | 56 | |
316 | The Space of Thoughts | 55 | |
317 | Whose Nudge, Who’s Nudged | 55 | |
318 | Mother’s Day | 55 | |
319 | After Labor Day | 54 | |
320 | 9/11/2001 | 54 | |
321 | Self-Medication | 52 | |
322 | Pure and Mixed Strategies | 51 | |
323 | Agatha Christie’s Middle East | 51 | |
324 | Celebrity and Desire | 51 | |
325 | The Changing Face of Heroin | 51 | |
326 | Gap Year | 51 | |
327 | Why do you wear a mask | 50 | |
328 | Real American Hero | 50 | |
329 | “Cooked!”,48 Families |
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330 | Prisoner’s Dilemma of No Principal Reduction | 49 | |
331 | The First Day of School | 49 | |
332 | The Jungle Book | 48 | |
333 | Metro Station Pionerskaya | 48 | |
334 | To Troll a Mockingbird | 48 | |
335 | Starting from Scratch | 48 | |
336 | Becoming a Scientist | not Workers” | |
337 | The Membrane | 46 | |
338 | The Outside of the Inner Circle | 45 | |
339 | Trump’s First Inaugural | 45 | |
340 | The Next Ruling Class | 45 | |
341 | Bored | 45 | |
342 | Sand City | 45 | |
343 | Spies Like Us | 45 | |
344 | Economic Segregation and Economic Mobility | 44 | |
345 | Keynes, Dickens, Thackeray, Consumption and Debt | 44 | |
346 | Shakespeare, Ranked | 41 | |
347 | Film and Political Intention | 39 | |
348 | On Gawker | 39 | |
349 | Tonypandy | 39 | |
350 | Candidates are Constituencies | 38 | |
351 | If Russia is Really Behind the Hacks… | 38 | |
352 | Walton’s Billion Dollars for Charters | 38 | |
353 | Super Trumpday | 37 | |
354 | Achilles, the Tortoise, and the Story of the Three Clockworks | 36 | |
355 | The Counterintuitive Counterfactual | 35 | |
356 | The Metropole Calleth | 35 | |
357 | Bugs | 35 | |
358 | Common Descent | 34 | |
359 | Balance of Power | 34 | |
360 | The Silver Lining in the Cinderblock Cage | 33 | |
361 | Toad and I | 33 | |
362 | Achilles and the Tortoise Talk About Floss | 32 | |
363 | Higamous, Hogamous, Birth Timing’s Endogenous | 32 | |
364 | Bros not Bombs | 32 | |
365 | Don’t Sleep on the Interaction Term | 32 | |
366 | Giving Thanks | 31 | |
367 | Intent to Treat | 31 | |
368 | Policy 1965, Policy 2016 | 31 | |
369 | McCloskey on Trump | 31 | |
370 | The Crystal Palace | 31 | |
371 | Air Ball | 30 | |
372 | Spottedtoad Radio Hour, Episode 2 | 29 | |
373 | 2016 is 1988 | 29 | |
374 | Umberto Eco and the Hot Take | 29 | |
375 | Canto 1 | 28 | |
376 | Blackboards without a Blank Slate | 28 | |
377 | Interaction Effects | 27 | |
378 | Rothstein, Guinier, and the SAT | 27 | |
379 | The Prisoner’s Dilemma of (Not) Attacking Trump | 27 | |
380 | With the Laughing Face | 26 | |
381 | eBook | 26 | |
382 | Happiness | 26 | |
383 | Cadillacs | 25 | |
384 | Farmers, Foragers, and Inferno, Canto V, Over Time | 25 | |
385 | Donald Barthelme’s “The School”,22 Are Higher-Immigration Areas Healthier for Native-Born Americans?” |
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386 | The Genomic Revolution | 24 | |
387 | Monkey Business | 24 | |
388 | Kindly Bloodsuckers | 24 | |
389 | Mne Golos Byl (I Heard a Voice) | 23 | |
390 | Virtue and Virtus on the Ides of March | 23 | |
391 | The Vine and the Drainpipe | 23 | |
392 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 9: Ornette Coleman | 22 | |
393 | Two-Period Model | 22 | |
394 | Power and Memory | 21 | |
395 | Manning the Battlements | 21 | |
396 | Cutoffs | 21 | |
397 | “Curiouser and Curiouser,”,14 Bill Evans on Collective Improvisation” |
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398 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 17: Nat King Cole | 20 | |
399 | Jazz Memorium: Mose Allison | 19 | |
400 | Caucus Predictions | 18 | |
401 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 20: Tito Puente | 17 | |
402 | On the Value of Debate, in Theory and in Practice | 17 | |
403 | The Tax | 16 | |
404 | Big Business and Small | 14 | |
405 | The Other Bush Brother | 14 | |
406 | Constants | 14 | |
407 | Duke’s Place | 13 | |
408 | A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (For Marco Rubio) | 13 | |
409 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, August 23: Bobby Watson | 13 | |
410 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 11: Sergio Mendes | 12 | |
411 | The Schoolhouse Self | 12 | |
412 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 20: Nancy Wilson | 10 | |
413 | Taking Stock | 9 | |
414 | Ten Questions for Evaluating Evaluations | 9 | |
415 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, July 25: Johnny Hodges | 9 | |
416 | (More than just) Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 22: Jorge Ben Jor | 8 | |
417 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 11: Bobby McFerrin | 8 | |
418 | Summer Vacation | 7 | |
419 | Miles at 90 | 7 | |
420 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 17: Buddy DeFranco | 7 | |
421 | Jazz Memoriam: Phife Dawg | 6 | |
422 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 30: Norah Jones | 6 | |
423 | Ridente la calma | 6 | |
424 | (Belated) Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 8th: Freddie Hubbard | 6 | |
425 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, James P Johnson | 6 | |
426 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 10: Roland Hanna | 6 | |
427 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 28: Willie Bobo | 6 | |
428 | Jazz Birthday Calendar: February 24, David “Fathead Newman” | 5 | |
429 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 3: Jimmy Garrison | 5 | |
430 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 11th: Fred Astaire | 5 | |
431 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 19, David Murray | 5 | |
432 | (Belated) Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 6: Wes Montgomery | 5 | |
433 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, June 9: Kenny Barron | 4 | |
434 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 16: Jeff Clayton | 4 | |
435 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, Sonny Stitt | 4 | |
436 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 20: Marian McPartland | 4 | |
437 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 24: King Pleasure | 4 | |
438 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 26: James Moody | 4 | |
439 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 2: Eddie “Lockjaw Davis” | 4 | |
440 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 15: Jimmy McPartland | 4 | |
441 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 14: Shirley Scott | 4 | |
442 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 13:Roy Haynes | 4 | |
443 | Jazz Birthday, March 5: Wilbur Little | 4 | |
444 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 17: Jackie McLean | 4 | |
445 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 16: Betty Carter | 4 | |
446 | Jazz Birthday Calendar March 12: Al Jarreau | 4 | |
447 | About | 4 | |
448 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 25: Paul Motian | 4 | |
449 | Jazz Birthday Calenday, March 28: Thad Jones | 4 | |
450 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, King Curtis | 4 | |
451 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 2: Richard “Groove Holmes” | 4 | |
452 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 12: Herbie Hancock | 4 | |
453 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, June 12: Chick Corea | 4 | |
454 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 15, Henry Threadgill | 4 | |
455 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 7: Arthur Blythe | 4 | |
456 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 10: Mel Lewis | 3 | |
457 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 1: Glenn Miller | 3 | |
458 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 31: Red Norvo | 3 | |
459 | Jazz Birthday Calendar: Snooky Young | 3 | |
460 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 30: Percy Heath | 3 | |
461 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 14: Gene Ammons | 3 | |
462 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 21: Harold Ashby | 3 | |
463 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 19: Eliane Elias | 3 | |
464 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 18: Bill Frisell | 3 | |
465 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 27: Ben Webster | 3 | |
466 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 27: Sarah Vaughan | 3 | |
467 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, John Stubblefield | 3 | |
468 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 8: Keith Jarrett | 3 | |
469 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 25: Ida Cox | 3 | |
470 | Seeing and Solitude | 3 | |
471 | Jazz Birthday Calendar– Rozelle Claxton | 3 | |
472 | Jazz Birthday Calendar- Sammy Nestico | 3 | |
473 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 27: Dexter Gordon | 3 | |
474 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 10: Bix Beiderbecke | 3 | |
475 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 4: Jason Marsalis | 3 | |
476 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 17: Buster Williams | 3 | |
477 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 22: Charles Mingus | 3 | |
478 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 21: Nina Simone | 3 | |
479 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 8: George Coleman | 3 | |
480 | Jazz Birthday Calenday, February 8: Buddy Morrow | 3 | |
481 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 26: Chris Anderson | 3 | |
482 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, March 16: Tommy Flanagan | 3 | |
483 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 4: Ron Carter | 3 | |
484 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 14: Maceo Parker | 3 | |
485 | Jazz Birthday Calendar February r 13: Wardell Gray | 3 | |
486 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 13: Kirk Stuart | 2 | |
487 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, April 15: Richard Davis | 2 | |
488 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 19: Sonny Fortune | 2 | |
489 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 14: Sidney Bechet | 2 | |
490 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 3: John Lewis | 2 | |
491 | Jazz Birthday Calendar: February 12, Donald Lambert | 2 | |
492 | Jazz Birthday Calendar: February 18, Frank Butler | 2 | |
493 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 13: Gil Evans | 2 | |
494 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 23: John Carisi | 2 | |
495 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 12: Gary Peacock | 2 | |
496 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, May 9: Dennis Chambers | 2 | |
497 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 22nd: Rex Stewart | 2 | |
498 | Jazz Birthday Calendar, February 29: Jimmy Dorsey | 2 |
>my pseudonymous life hasn’t come back to bite me in my non-pseudonymous butt yet
Do you know what happened to Lomez?
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I assumed discretion was the better part of valor for him- did something happen?
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A couple months ago he said that he was going dark. I forget the exact language but I think I recall something about “security breach”. I haven’t seen him since. 😦
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