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56 Star Tattoo Teen Comes Clean; Admits She Lied to ‘Save Face’
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hfields
Regrets, I’ve had a few. But perhaps none so visible as those of Belgian teenager Kimberley Vlaminck, who claimed last week to have ‘fallen asleep’ in the tattooist’s chair and woken up with 56 stars tattooed across her face when she’d only–she said–asked for 3. Now, anyone who’s ever gotten a tattoo (and I have…
The Great Guilt Debate: Is Using Emotional Blackmail to Get What You Want Unethical?
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hfields
“Not if you’re Jewish,” is my mom’s answer. And indeed, it’s been my experience that we Jews ingest guilt with our mother’s milk (not that I’d know, since my mother didn’t find it ‘convenient’ to breast-feed me [ha, see what I did there?!]). My grandmother was quite capable of saying, without one iota of irony,…
Controversy Over New Hugging Trend Among Teens Leads to Hug Bans in High Schools
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hfields
Yep, that’s right, now affection is illegal. The New York Times today reported on the new fad for hugging among teens in an article entitled For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?‘ Kids these days are embracing all over the place. Boys with boys, girls with girls, hetero-hugs, menage-a-hugs. It’s all good with teens.…
13-Year-Old Daniel Hauser Refusing Chemo On Religious Grounds; Court Orders Treatment
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hfields
Over the past couple of weeks, the news has been filled with headlines about 13-year-old Daniel Hauser, a Minnesota boy diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Citing religious grounds (the family are members of the Nemenhah Band of Native Americans, who are proponents of natural healing methods), the boy and his mother began refusing chemotherapy after a single…
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