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  • Women's Happiness: Here we go again.

    September 24, 2009

    • About once a year the media decide it's time to talk about the state of women's happiness (or unhappiness as it turns out), and frankly I am tired of it. Not because I think that women's happiness isn't an important subject, but inevitably our media and other talking heads seem to miss the point.  Take Ross Douthat, conservative columnist for the New York Times for example. His piece, entitled, ...
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  • Somalian Pirates, and the case for Louisiana's fishing industry.

    September 21, 2009

    • I have been really interested lately in the Somali pirate incident. The news media is all abuzz about the pirates, but of course they are focusing on the wrong issues again. Most of the coverage dehumanizes the pirates, and turns them into bloodthirsty criminals. While taking hostages, stealing, killing aren’t things that I condone, the fishermen of Somalia have been reduced to nothing, and ...
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