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Divorce Insurance

ט"ז באלול ה'תש"ע (26 August 2010)

Wow. Divorce insurance is a real thing. I can understand the case for auto insurance, though I don’t make car ownership a part of my life. Same for homeowners’ insurance, though I don’t own a home. I can even understand the rumors that Jennifer Lopez insured her ass. But divorce insurance? Really? Why would somebody [...]

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Al Gore is a rapist.

י"ג בתמוז ה'תש"ע (25 June 2010)

The above statement has no bearing in truth (and I wrote it just to attract people searching for it). In fact, if what the New York Times says is true, Al Gore is about as far from being a rapist as anyone can be. Unless I’m missing some subtextual implication, he’s being accused of wanting [...]

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Effects of Divorce on Children

ו' באדר ה'תש"ע (20 February 2010)

The way to measure the effects of divorce on children is to compare children of divorced parents with children of parents who are still married. Right? In a New York Times op/ed, Ruth Bettelheim says that there isn’t a difference: Studies conducted in the past 20 years have shown that on all meaningful measures of [...]

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Divorce

י"ז בכסלו ה'תש"ע (4 December 2009)

It happened suddenly. I worked closely with a certain guy for a couple years. We were on the same team in a job with some customer service orientation. He was phenomenally good at dealing with the clients. He’s a problem-solver; he loves to help people. He is gentle, progressive and generous to a fault. He [...]

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Game theory and the shidduch crisis

כ"ז במרחשון ה'תש"ע (14 November 2009)

Shomer Shekalim has a great post about the shidduch crisis and game theory on which I commented, but thought I’d continue writing here. He asks: “To be honest though, if we could figure out what really is behind the shiduch crisis, it probably would save people thousands of dollars in what is currently spent in [...]

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