var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongoing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was traveling to the Silicon Valley of the East in December 2006 with my Suffolk University M.B.A. class in Boston to study business there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]
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Marriage — Brain or Heart?
March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East
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You know, like, homosexuality’s bad, okay?
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Bible, Christianity, Culture, Religion, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/02/you-know-like-homosexualitys-bad-okay/’,size:‘large’} I confess: I don’t know who Miss Beverly Hills is, nor do I particularly care. I find her recent defense of her anti-gay beliefs compelling, however. Especially illuminating is the pause when she is asked if one can both be Christian and gay.
I think Miss Beverly Hills’ response – or […]
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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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Too Many Men
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East, War
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Michael J. Totten watches this YouTube video and makes an important point:
I don’t know much about demography, but Martin Kramer makes a strong case in just a few short minutes for the idea that a surplus of military-aged males is a big part of the Middle East’s […]
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A quick rundown
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Religion, Science, Sex, The Middle East, Uncategorized
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/05/a-quick-rundown/’,size:‘large’} I said it once; I’ll say it again: clearly, religion is not the real cause of Islamic terrorism. Debate me all you want, but I will insist and never be convinced that religion is nothing more than a cloak donned by hypocrites, liars, and the criminally insane.
Hopefully, good news […]
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Orthodox Dating
February 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Dating, Feminism, Judaism, Religion, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/02/orthodox-dating/’,size:‘large’} For those who are interested or curious, I just read a good article on dating in Orthodox Judaism — shomer negiah and all.
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T-Shirt Politics
January 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Fashion, Feminism, Humor, Politics, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/t-shirt-politics/’,size:‘large’} Melissa Tankard Reist criticizes a line of misogynistic T-shirts. Five bucks says she has no problem with male-bashing clothing. But it’s a moot point. Women — particularly those who are young, secular, and immature — generally prefer “bad boys,” guaranteeing that any man wearing the first set of shirts […]
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Lonely Women
January 24th, 2010 · 33 Comments · Boston, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Israel, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/lonely-women/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — Richard Whitmire, author of “Why Boys Fail,” has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal based on findings of a recent Pew Research Center report on dating:
Rachel Downtain is a telecommunications project manager who says her friends would describe her as tall, slender, fit and active. […]
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Buying a Drink
January 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Feminism, Massachusetts, Personal, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/20/buying-a-drink/’,size:‘large’} HALIFAX, Canada — I flew to this Canadian town to attend a conference of the North American Street Newspaper Association in 2006 while I was Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News in Boston, and the greatest lesson at the seminar actually came from a bar in the city.
While some of my […]
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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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The (Unintended?) Consequences of Intolerance
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Bible, Religion, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/07/the-unintended-consequences-of-intolerance/’,size:‘large’} In case you missed it, I encourage everyone to read Americans’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push in Monday’s NY Times.
When you say that “Some of the nicest people I have ever met are [insert adjective here] people,” yet publicly denounce those people as having a “hidden and dark agenda” […]
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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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The Misandry Bubble
January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/04/the-misandry-bubble/’,size:‘large’} Here is your required reading for the day. Here is the nut graph:
The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, […]
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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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