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...decision to sell her body, Majoor’s teenage life was defined by ultimate indigence: She was living on the streets of Amsterdam, dabbling in hard drugs when she could afford them, suffering from a lack of healthy food and adequate clothing, and really desiring one thing. A pet...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Red Light | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...Majoor and Janssen, who argue that minors can make the informed decision to enter the sex industry—even when their choice is, quite literally, between indigence and significant wealth. Isn’t the fact that Majoor decided to become a prostitute principally because she wanted a pet dog reason enough to conclude that minors, particularly those living in extreme poverty, can’t make a rational, informed decision...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Red Light | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...fact that pet dogs aren’t distributed for free is no excuse...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Red Light | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...parents then rallied behind Proposition 98, which by a complex formula apportions roughly 40% of the state budget to K-14 education. In the past three decades, other special interests have authored - and voters have passed - numerous ballot measures dictating that millions in state funds go to various pet causes. Many of these measures, including a preschool initiative sponsored by Schwarzenegger in 2002, mandate a program but fail to provide a source of funding. Each proposal alone might have merit, but collectively these ballot measures have locked most of California's budget in place. "Gradually, the voters' piecemeal decisions have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How California's Fiscal Woes Began: A Crisis 30 Years in the Making | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...Which brings us to Mikaela (Megan Fox), Sam's polymer princess, whom Bay treats as if she were last month's Penthouse Pet, with a mixture of disdain and need. "You're hot, but you ain't so bright," one robot tells her, and you wonder if it is speaking the boss's mind. Later, it humps her leg. Throughout all this, Fox appears stoic, perhaps because she's concentrating on keeping her lips permanently parted and wet (she looks as if she's been interrupted in the midst of dining on lobster with drawn butter). Mikaela is worried about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Falls Short | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

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