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Tombstone pizzas are my favorite frozen pizzas, although DiGiorno are good if you like the thicker crust. Regardless of brand, all of them are better if you use the Presto Pizzazz pizza cooker. I have had one for about 10 years and I love it!
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That's an interesting point, but how about the counterpoint that nearly *all* medical expenses are just more expensive in the United States than the rest of the developed world? Childbirth is no exception.
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"80 weeks of unused vacation time", apparently she did do a lot of work, and foregone the vacation time during that period. The subject title and content is misleading. Most of it is probably attributed to older employment terms she was entitled to when she she started working for the city many years back.
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Sweden has the right idea when it comes to prison.

Since the purpose of prison is to keep criminals away from the general public only crimes that would make you a threat to society are punished by prison time.

For more crimes the prisoners are taught a skill, get a free education and live in a dorm like setting where they leave the prison to go to their daily job. They are monitored and have to check in when they get to work to make sure they didn't have time to stop off for a bank robbery or something..... and get this... they have to pay for their own food and lodging out of their wages.... so they are not drain on society.

But basically prisoners get a new lease on life, learn skills and how to be a productive member of society so when they get out they don't want to go back to a life of crime.

Violent criminals are put on a island where they pretty much govern themselves and grow their own food. Once a month their families can come out to visit them and have a BBQ. They have a pretty nice life and are kept away from the public (which is the reason for prison in the first place)

Now flip over to the US where we lock up people for just about any crime regardless if it makes you a threat to the public at large. So we have prisons full of non violent offenders locked up with violent scumbags (so we ensure that non violent criminals become violent and hostile). They don't really learn anything or do anything productive and are a drain on the taxpayers. Then they get out of jail and noone will hire them so they are forced back into a life of crime hence why we have a ridiculous failure rate when it comes to rehabilitating inmates.

We house non violent criminals at 30k each for years just to have them end up back in prison again and again. It is insanity.
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Interesting analysis but probably wrong. Movies are typically written by humanities grads, and they know more about storytelling than anything science-related. In a typical movie (or TV episode), they get the science wrong, they get psychology wrong, they get the technology wrong, they get "computer hacking" wrong, they perpetuate long-discredited pseudoscience and quackery, they usually make the scientist/engineer/mathematician to be less than honorable, and they have a very negative and ill-informed view of geek culture.

Even a supposedly "pro-science" show like CSI suffers from a lot of the problems I listed above. There is no grand conspiracy to attack engineers or scientists. It's that TV and movie writers don't know any better and they don't care. "The truth should never get in the way of a good story."
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The great thing about the final line of the article - ''It may be Disney,'' Runge explained. ''But it still smells 'pervert' to me.'' - is that the "pervert" in this case is Runge (and anyone else who believed that the vague things they were hearing were automatically smut, no questions asked.

I mean don't get me wrong, Disney does some questionable and awful things (changing Merida's look to something more sexualized in order to merchandise her as a princess, for example), but putting a microscope to each frame of a Disney film in order to find phantom boners says a lot more about the person holding the microscope.
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Isn't it amazing how focused Christians are on sex. I don't remember reading anything about Jesus getting all stirred up over obscene graffiti, or porn, which any child could have seen.
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Yes, Machiavellian mom, you have successfully made your children weaker. The whole point of that quote is that working together makes groups stronger. Are your children a threat to you? Keep them pitted against each other so they don't jeopardize your ruling authority? This is just silly.
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She's a bigot, and spoiled to boot. She just oozes entitlement. Just being smart, pretty, young and white (not to mention apparently being able to afford an Ivy League school) are not enough for her? She makes me sick.
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