Daily Archives: December 18, 2007

Strippers and Business Tactics

From Dr. Rob Oliver: While doing "research" looking for a picture to frame this post with, I stumbled across something funny about how strippers and business tactics. It made me reflect that cosmetic surgery/medicine and strippers are alike in how … Continue reading

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Blogging for Truth and Beauty

Natasha Singer writes: MOST bloggers have never met a beauty product or treatment they didn’t love. The fill their columns with wildly enthusiastic prose about the latest blush, the newest procedure or research that they laud as cutting-edge. Then there … Continue reading

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1 Week Until Heebonism, Strip Dreidel

Heeb Magazine presents: This year, our annual post-Chinese food calorie-burner happens in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Portland. Heebonism Los Angeles will take place at the Clothing of the American Mind Headquarters in Echo Park (1284 W. Sunset … Continue reading

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Study Suggests That a Need for Physical Perfection May Reveal Emotional Flaws

Here’s a study that reflects common sense. Natasha Singer writes: IN the first season of the television drama ”Nip/Tuck,” two plastic surgeons named Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy hire a staff psychologist to determine whether their patients are … Continue reading

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Jewish Observer Warns About Blogs

Rabbi Asher Meir writes:   Gil brought my attention to a recent article by Zvi Frankel in the Jewish Observer warning about the dangers of blogs, and asked if I could make some comments (Zvi Frankel, "Blogs: Transgressing a Major … Continue reading

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