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Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/09/are-pizza-and-soda-price-elastic/’,size:‘large’} A team from Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Chapel Hill seems to think so:
U.S. researchers esti­mate that an 18 per­cent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calo­rie intake enough to lower their aver­age weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing […]

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I was sick…

March 4th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Christianity, Health, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/04/i-was-sick/’,size:‘large’} I felt this expla­na­tion of the U.S. health care debate was fairly objec­tive; though, I admit that accord­ing to Wikipedia, the pub­lisher leans left.
Regard­less, I have a few thoughts on health care:

pri­vate insur­ance com­pa­nies seek to max­i­mize prof­its at employ­ers’ expense;
employ­ers seek to max­i­mize prof­its at employ­ees’ expense;
doc­tors seek […]

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Redundant, Oppressed Men

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East

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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British doc­u­men­tary on the state of men and man­li­ness in mod­ern, West­ern soci­ety:
Men and mas­culin­ity are being mar­gin­alised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even con­sid­ered dys­func­tional. Men are being edged out of the fam­ily, the work­place and wider soci­ety as […]

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Another Housing-Bust

February 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Health, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/23/another-housing-bust-2/’,size:‘large’} Don’t let the GDP growth of 5.7 per­cent in the last quar­ter of 2009 fool you even though the sta­tis­tic means that the reces­sion is offi­cially over. (A reces­sion is two con­sec­u­tive quar­ters of neg­a­tive eco­nomic growth.) Besides, gov­ern­ment sta­tis­tics may be mis­lead­ing — or even wrong — as […]

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Dating in the Stone Age

February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Dating, Feminism, Health, Politics, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/09/dating-in-the-stone-age/’,size:‘large’} Your required-reading for the day: Char­lotte Allen writes a lengthy essay on the mod­ern, sin­gles scene in the West, which she, per­haps iron­i­cally, believes is a throw­back to tens of thou­sands of years ago as a result of fem­i­nism; tech­nol­ogy; game-playing, Alpha males; sexually-liberated, suc­cess­ful women; ignored, Beta males; […]

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Abortion Politics

January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/14/abortion-politics-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — You learn some­thing new every day. Here is Israel’s law on abor­tion:
Under Israeli law, abor­tions are per­mis­si­ble if the woman is younger than sev­en­teen or older than forty, if the preg­nancy was con­ceived under ille­gal cir­cum­stances such as rape or incest, or out­side of mar­riage, if the […]

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Shomer Negiah Questions

January 9th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Sex, Talmud, Torah

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/09/shomer-negiah-questions/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — So, sev­eral years ago, I was on a date with a won­der­ful girl. The evening was amaz­ing — a tasty din­ner, a few drinks, and great con­ver­sa­tion. We were laugh­ing and jok­ing. Every­thing was going extremely well.
Then, after she vol­un­teered to give me a lift to my […]

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Psychological Violence: A Response

January 7th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Europe, Feminism, Health, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/07/3618/’,size:‘large’} Sam and his sources, con­ser­v­a­tive crit­ics, even the ven­er­a­ble BBC, are wildly off-base in his post on psy­cho­log­i­cal vio­lence laws.
We in the US have laws against phys­i­cal domes­tic vio­lence, thank­fully, partly in con­se­quence of the 20th cen­tury move­ment to give women more rights.
Prior to the devel­op­ment of domes­tic abuse […]

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Psychological Violence

January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Europe, Feminism, Health, Law, Politics, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/psychological-violence/’,size:‘large’} France just passed a new law that should raise a few eye­brows:
Mar­ried cou­ples in France could end up with crim­i­nal records for insult­ing each other dur­ing argu­ments.
Under a new law, France is to become the first coun­try in the world to ban ‘psy­cho­log­i­cal vio­lence’ within mar­riage.
The law would apply […]

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Letter from Israel: A Tale of Two Childhoods

January 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Boston, Britain, Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Europe, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/02/letter-from-israel-a-tale-of-two-childhoods/’,size:‘large’} Sev­en­teenth in an ongo­ing series
RISHON LEZION, Israel — So I was buy­ing a bot­tle of soda at a local kiosk, a con­ve­nience store, when three ten-year-old boys walked in and asked the owner for some plas­tic cups. (Kiosks rou­tinely offer them for free when­ever some­one pur­chases a bot­tle of […]

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Human Rights

December 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Health, Israel, Law, Palestine, Politics, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/human-rights-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Peter Tatchell believes that the world should have a human-rights index sim­i­lar to the ones that mea­sure eco­nomic per­for­mance and qual­ity of life. I have one ques­tion: What is to stop so-called human-rights orga­ni­za­tions from instill­ing their biases against Israel — as the founder of Human Rights […]

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Being an Early-Riser

December 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Entertainment, Health, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Science, Sports

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/being-an-early-riser/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Ever since I can remem­ber, I have always wanted to stay up late and sleep in late. It was not out of a desire to slack-off and party (even in high school) — it was merely because I always had so much to do. I would stay […]

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Christian Persecution

December 24th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Liberal Pundits, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/christian-persecution/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Evi­dently, ultra-Orthodox Jews in the city have been spit­ting on Chris­tians for years. This is dis­gust­ing — in every sense of the word.

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Cooking for One

December 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Culture, Economics, Food, Health, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/23/cooking-for-one/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I moved into a new apart­ment, I struck a deal with my new room­mate: I would do all the cook­ing, and he would do all the clean­ing. I think it’s work­ing out quite nicely.
Back in Boston, I had the oppo­site arrange­ment with a room­mate for the […]

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Moving to Israel

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Essays, Europe, Globalization, Health, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Language, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/23/moving-to-israel-2/’,size:‘large’} Eighth in a series of essays
JERUSALEM — In an edi­to­r­ial, the Jerusalem Post cor­rectly points out the rea­son that more Amer­i­can Jews do not move to Israel:
THE OBSTACLE to Amer­i­can aliya [mov­ing to Israel] is not finan­cial. It is cul­tural. Amer­i­can Jews live their Jew­ish lives dif­fer­ently from anyone […]

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