Monthly Archives: August 2014

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Wonders Never Cease

In perusing the Economist online the other day, I was more than a little surprised to see an article entitled, “Prostitution, A Personal Choice”(http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21611063-internet-making-buying-and-selling-sex-easier-and-safer-governments-should-stop#). As anyone that reads the Economist will know, this is not this magazine’s typical reading fare. Further surprising was the stance the author took in analyzing the internet’s influence on the […]

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Super Powers and Wish Fulfillment

As a child I frequently dreamed of having super powers – I wanted to breathe underwater. I wanted to fly. I wanted to be psychic. And while many of my dreams came true (kayaking Midland Sound at dawn, going to Harvard, I could go on!), I never gained a super power. Stay with me here, […]