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Investing in Divorce

כ״ח בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Sunday 5 December 2010)

From the New York Times, I’ve just learned that other people’s divorces are a sound and even profitable investment opportunity: “Balance Point Divorce Funding [is] a new Beverly Hills lender that offers to cover the cost of breaking up – paying a lawyer, searching for hidden assets, maintaining a lifestyle – in exchange for a [...]

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Don’t Send Your Children to Work

כ״ה באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 4 September 2010)

I love my parents and I think they did a very good job raising me, especially in comparison with my cousins and some of my childhood peers, who were spoiled rotten and remain rotten as young adults. But one of the things my parents did that fucked me up for life is making me have [...]

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How to Cheat on a Test

כ״ד בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 6 July 2010)

If you came here looking for instructions on cheating, you won’t find them. I am a reformed cheater and think cheating is despicable, so please don’t do it. In my high school, virtually everybody cheated (I know of two students who didn’t), but in retrospect I would have been much better off if I’d not [...]

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Al Gore is a rapist.

י״ג בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Friday 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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Deflation

ז׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 21 February 2010)

Recently one of my favorite bloggers, Israeli Water Engineer, wrote about fears of deflation in the United States: “This is bad. The only solution to world indebtness is controlled inflation….” I commented that deflation is a pretty good thing; he replied and I replied back (go read it). Though this discussion is about deflation, I [...]

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Effects of Divorce on Children

ו׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 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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