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Trip to the Newseum

May 17, 2009

Mr. B and I went to the Newseum today. Going to amalgamate it into some thoughts later, when my mind stops spinning from how AWESOME it was. For now, enjoy these pics.

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Mobama, don’t fall prey to the Jew guilt in Prague

April 5, 2009

I have to admit that I am disappointed in Michelle Obama. Before she started doing all this fancy traveling around Europe and giving out iPods and whatnot, I thought she was a pretty good woman and a pretty good role model. She’s trying to raise two girls normally (two girls who have almost been made into Beanie Babies) and is trying to keep her marriage to the man who is now seen as a Messiah in 80% of the world, ...

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The Iranian Threat: Isn’t

March 11, 2009

I’ve really been getting into podcasts lately.  I have the GRE coming up, and God knows I need to brush up on both my logical thinking and my vocabulary (the math is in a whole different circle of Hell for me.)  Podcasts fulfill several purposes for me: A) They get me through the morning commute; B) They help me internalize world news to use for the logic essay on the GRE and C) They catch me up on industry news ...

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Girl power! Kind of? Women and sex trafficking

February 13, 2009

So, you know how there’s this whole market for trafficking women for sex?  Well, apparently, in a reversal of roles, women are now targeting men for sex and acting as their pimps. The first international report into the scope of human trafficking, published yesterday, found a disproportionate number of female perpetrators, more than in any other crime, selling other women into slavery in countries including Australia. My first question is obviously how the study was designed, statistics, outliers, r squared ...

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