Periodically I read media reports such as this one of someone getting busted for clandestinely taking ‘upskirt’ photos, which I understand to mean that they position their cameras in such a way that they can see up the skirts worn by women.
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Roc Morin interviews Ishii Yuichi, the 36-year old founder of an 800-person company in Japan that provides people with fake family and friends when needed, ranging from infants to the elderly. In the interview he gives examples of the roles that he and his staff have played.
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Philosopher Karl Popper is supposed to have said that it is impossible to speak in such a manner that one cannot be misunderstood. This is a sentiment that any teacher would agree with because however much you think you have explained something very clearly, there will always be someone that finds an interpretation that was unanticipated by you.
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The Republican party seems all over the place over what to do about their Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore. Leaders in the party have said that if the allegations are true, Moore should step aside. This is significant in that they are allowing for the possibility that the allegations may be true. I would have expected them to close ranks and decry the story as fake news and a fiendish Democratic plot aided by the fake news liberal media. Part of the reason may be that the avalanche of sex abuse revelations by prominent people has suddenly shifted the center of gravity of the discussions, so that women’s charges that they were abused are no longer summarily dismissed.
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Some reasons have been advanced by other residents of the gated community for the attack on US senator Rand Paul by his neighbor Rene Boucher. Though both Boucher’s lawyer and Paul’s spokespersons have said that the cause was not political but a ‘trivial’ dispute , it may have had an underlying political cause arising from Paul’s adherence to libertarian philosophy, especially when it comes to property rights.
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Although it looks like a parody of all the drug ads put out by the big pharmaceutical companies, it is for a real company selling a real product.
The Washington Post has dropped the latest sexual abuse allegation and this one is a bombshell, targeting the Republican candidate for US senate in Alabama Roy Moore. It quotes four women on-the-record who say that many years ago, when they were teens and he was a lawyer in his 30s, Moore made overtures to them
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Have you heard about the people who calls themselves ‘incels’? Me neither, until today. It is shorthand for ‘involuntarily celibate’ and the full name makes it pretty clear who they are. This article says that there were 40,000 of them on a sub-group of Reddit until the site was shut down today.
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After Tuesday’s losses, some political commentators are wondering if Donald Trump is finally losing support among his base. Michael Kruse recently visited the town of coal and steel town of Johnstown, PA, a year after he and Trump visited it at a campaign stop where Trump promised to bring back the coal and steel industries. Kruse says that even though Trump has not delivered on any of the promises that he made to them in his campaign stop, the people he spoke to last year still back him, mainly because Trump attacks the people that they hate, and they take at face value Trump’s “insistent declarations of success no matter the reality” and his inveterate blame-shifting.
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