Category: “Erosophia.Blogspot”
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The Mayo Clinic Objects
by Jason Stotts Bloomberg is reporting that as of January first, one of the Mayo Clinics in Arizona has decided to stop accepting Medicare patients. This is the right decision for the Clinic because, as they note, medicare patients do not pay enough to warrant treatment. That is, the Mayo Clinic is losing too…
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The State of Marriage
by Jason Stotts Blogger Andrew Sullivan, of “The Daily Dish” at The Atlantic, has a very interesting graphic that shows just how crazy the laws regarding marriage in our country really are. The reason that we have laws against siblings marrying is that the chance that the offspring will be severely mentally retarded is much…
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Unsafe Sex Toys?
by Jason Stotts Violet Blue, writer, sex educator, and sex blogger at Open Source Sex, has an interesting article about sex toys and safety issues. The article is “Unsafe” and it lists potential health concerns that any sexually active person should be aware of. For example: * Nonoxynol-9 is a detergent that has been shown to…
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Best of 2009
by Jason Stotts As I was looking back over the essays I’ve written this year for the OBloggers “Best of 2009 Carnival,” I realized that there were a lot of good essays from this year. I had a really hard time picking out my favorite and so I decided to do my own Top 10…
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A Scholar and a Prostitute?
by Jason Stotts Europe and Me Magazine has published an interesting article called “Prostitution as as Student Job.” The article discusses the rise of prostitution as a way that many female students are paying their way through college and grad school. The common theme in the article is that the women are turning to prostitution…
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Australia Following China’s Lead?
by Jason Stotts I was incredibly surprised to find this article “Australia to Implement Mandatory Internet Censorship.” Apparently, Australia thinks that China is the country to model and doesn’t think that its citizens have the moral or intellectual capacity to judge what they want to see on the internet. Consequently, in order to block “illegal…
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Mexico City Approves Gay Marriage
by Jason Stotts (Source: Wiki-Commons) Mexico city has just passed legislation that legalizes gay marriage by redefining marriage from a union of a man and a woman to “the free uniting of two people” (according to the Huffington Post). This is a surprising move since Mexico is a strongly catholic country and, obviously, catholics hate homosexuals.…
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Health Care Bill Passes Senate Cloture
by Jason Stotts In a shady move last night, the Senate passed cloture around 1AM which will allow the Senate health care bill to be voted upon on the floor in short order. This bill will represent the largest expansion of governmental power in a long time. Some quotes from a couple of articles are…