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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

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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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

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/07/too-many-men/’,size:‘large’}
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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