י״ד בשבט ה׳תש״ע (Friday 29 January 2010)

How to find an Israeli girl’s number

י״ד בשבט ה׳תש״ע (Friday 29 January 2010)

Girls: Would You Fudge Your ‘Number’ to Be More Attractive to Guys?. If so, you are like the approximately 100% of other girls who regularly do the same. I’ve very rarely bothered to ask a girl with how many other guys she’s had sex, and I’ve never asked one before first answering how many other [...]

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Compulsory Charity

כ״ט בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Friday 15 January 2010)

When the state tells us that we must give such-and-such a percent of our earnings to charity, in our disgust, we simply let the state confiscate those earnings and use them as it desires. That is taxation. How is it any different – how is it not taxation – if Goldman Sachs compels its employees [...]

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America’s Racial Orthodoxy

כ״ח בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 14 January 2010)

America is a ridiculously weird place because Americans, as most of the world knows, are obsessed with race and yet, at the same time, it is absolutely forbidden for Americans to have any opinion about race, with the possible exception of one: There Is Too Much Racism. Progressives do not even have to enforce this [...]

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Water Shortage

כ״ז בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 13 January 2010)

The notion of there being a “water shortage” calls to mind the old observation that countries with relatively good governments experience drought, while countries with relatively terrible governments experience famine. In effect drought and famine are caused by the same thing, or they are the same thing: a lack of rain. But in one case, [...]

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Text Messages & Genital Adjustment

כ״ה בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Monday 11 January 2010)

“Dear Prudence” is not my favorite advice column by a long shot, but it’s the one that I just happened to read, so I’m going to comment on it now. One woman writes that she is “28-year-old single woman, … tired of being asked out on dates via text message,” and goes on to explain [...]

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