links for 2009-08-17
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Lot's of ingenious gadgets
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The men's pick-up community often gets a bad rap. In some segments, and in some men, this bad rap is often deserved. But in some, it is not.
I usually blog about women's seduction, and specifically, explanations of various ubiquitous social phenomena that women can use to their advantage in their hopes of snagging the man (or men) of their dreams. But today I'm going to share my thoughts on the men's seduction, or pick-up, community. Because the subject was bound to come up eventually, and my thoughts on it are admittedly rather complicated.
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After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it. Here’s a radical solution to an agonizing problem.
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t was a very generous deal in many ways, but it did have its drawbacks. First, there was a strict curfew, so unless you were out with Hef, you had to be back in the hutch by 9pm. Second, while you could order any food or drink you wanted, at any time, from one of the many Mansion “butlers”, you were not allowed into the kitchen, even for a glass of water. And third, of course, you had to live in the extraordinarily dingy Playboy mansion, where all the furniture was falling apart, the mattresses were stained and the carpets were covered in dog poo. I remember visiting it in the early Nineties and being struck by its shabbiness then, and evidently it was the same or worse when Izabella moved in. Part of the trouble might be that Hef does not actually own the mansion; he has to rent it, room by room, from Playboy Enterprises and, according to Izabella, pays $25,000 a month for his own bedroom.
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Carries forearm forklift