Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Irrationality of Flexible Spending Accounts

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Paul

Ezra Klein has a good post up today on the problems of giving employers, but not individuals, a tax exemption on health insurance. This is clearly central to the problems of healthcare financing in the US, but, given how things … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Lessig and Why I’m Going on Strike

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Paul

Lawrence Lessig spoke at Google this week on his and Joe Trippi’s Change Congress organization. In particular, he made a convincing pitch for the Strike 4 Change initiative, which asks people to make a pledge: “I’m pledging not to donate … Continue reading →

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“Soonly”

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Paul

Allie, our three year old, just told me she’d do something “soonly,” obviously generalizing from an observation that she wanted a word that ended in “-ly” for that role. Matthew, our son, didn’t make the same types of errors at … Continue reading →

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