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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Law'
Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science
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A short trip ’round the blogosphere
March 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blogosphere, Blogroll, Blogs From Left to Right, Blogs on the Media, Law, Marketing, Politics, Uncategorized, terrorism
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/05/a-short-trip-round-the-blogosphere/’,size:‘large’} The Volokh Conspiracy asks those of us who oppose federally sanctioned torture to consider how we’d have reacted had John Yoo been anti-torture. (Not John Woo. Thanks to Dan for pointing this out.)
Above the Law informs us that some guy put his law degree up for sale on e-Bay. […]
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New Economics Post
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Immigration, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/04/new-economics-post/’,size:‘large’} I’ve published a new post at the Return of the Great Depression blog on how the growing economic crisis in the European Union may fracture the nascent sense of continental unity.
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Marketing Mossad
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Culture, Israel, Law, Marketing, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/02/marketing-mossad/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — I just received an e-mail advertisement from the Jerusalem Post containing this subject line: “Support the Mossad! Exclusive T-shirts Offers!” (The grammar mistake was there as well.) Only $12.
Add this to my “Only in Israel” file. I can only presume it’s a response to the controversial assassination of […]
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Christian Israel
February 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Christianity, Culture, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/27/christian-israel/’,size:‘large’} The Jerusalem Post has unveiled a revamped website with a Christian section that contains this interesting article: “Will Israel Obey God or Man?”
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Animal Rights Trump Human Rights
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Europe, Food, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/animal-rights-trump-human-rights/’,size:‘large’} I love my dog. I think farm animals should be treated humanely and not spend their lives in factory farms. Still a new Swiss animal rights law carries with it the specter of enforced Jainism.
Where does it end? Will government some day tell me I can’t eat meat or […]
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Domestic Violence
February 26th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Culture, Dating, Feminism, Law
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/domestic-violence/’,size:‘large’} Winning the FoxNews award for spinning the truth and conflating issues is Sam’s recent post Redundant Oppressed Men.
Please note that the divorce laws he decries are, as the judge on the first case put it, “old laws.” They were passed in the “good old days,” when women didn’t have […]
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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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Globalization of Identity
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took tennis lessons at Oak Hill Country Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illinois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my newfound passions for journalism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
My favorite […]
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Israeli Stupidity
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/israeli-stupidity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In prior posts, I discussed the frustrations of dealing the bureaucracy in Israeli customer-service. Now, Jonathan Degani, a former MBA classmate and colleague of mine, provides some similar — and, unfortunately, useful — information:
If you worked more than one job in the past seven years then […]
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Student-Loan Articles
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Journalism, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/23/student-loan-articles/’,size:‘large’} In a prior post, I analyzed the causes and consequences of student-loan debt among America’s young people. Now, the Huffington Post has unveiled a new, college section and introduced it with a story on student loans and another on student-loan abuse.
College graduates in 2008 carried an average student-loan debt […]
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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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Divided Jerusalem
February 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Boston, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/divided-jerusalem/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — An city government official recently made an announcement that is realistically true in terms of Middle East peace:
Yakir Segev, who holds the East Jerusalem portfolio in the Jerusalem municipality, made an uncharacteristic remark on Friday, declaring that the Palestinian neighborhood east of the separation fence were “no […]
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Laffer Curve
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/19/laffer-curve/’,size:‘large’} I always enjoy watching news and commentary from various points along the political spectrum — after all, no one is correct one-hundred percent of the time, and everyone is correct at least part of the time.
So I find myself watching Fox News once in a while to compliment CNN and […]
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Women of the Wall
February 16th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/women-of-the-wall/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews verbally assaulted a group of women praying at the Western Wall, called them “Nazis,” and blamed them for the Holocaust.
It’s just another example of the insanity that pervades extremist groups in the Middle East. The group, members of Women of the Wall […]
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