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Eric Gein runs a controversial website known for selling items crafted by serial predators and some of the nation’s most notorious murderers. Serial Killers Ink is much more than a dark market targeting fans of the macabre, however. It’s the premier source for “true crime collectibles” and “murderabilia.” To clarify, the items “crafted” by inmates, handwritten letters, artwork and personal trinkets are just some of the things this website offers.
That’s why Gein is frequently under scrutiny by victim advocate groups and the families of these victims of horrendous, and historical, crimes. Those who oppose this man’s particular business feel that he is cashing-in on the pain and heartbreak of victims and their

This piece has been crossposted from Freakonomics.com
The Portland Trail Blazers — a team that won 48 games in 2010-11 and was only three games below .500 this season — made two puzzling trades a couple of weeks ago. Gerald Wallace was sent to the New Jersey Nets for two injured players and a first round pick in the 2012 draft. And Marcus Camby was sent to the Houston Rockets for a second round pick and two players who had only played 158 minutes this year.
Camby and Wallace combined to produce more than 10 wins for the Blazers this season, and at the time of the trade their level of productivity led the team. Given what the Blazers received back, it seems likely the Blazers just got worse.
Henry Abbott — of ESPN’s TrueHoop (and devoted Blazers fan) — made the following observations about these two moves:
The Camby and Wallace trades are evidence that the Blazers are trying to tank (or in Abbott’s words, “become a very, very bad team.”)
This move by the Blazers should be contrasted with the moves by the Houston

Every year Americans generate 250 million tons of trash — enough to fill a line of garbage trucks that would stretch from the Earth halfway to the moon.
Studies have shown that at least 75% of our garbage could be recycled and composted; San Francisco has achieved a 77% recycling rate, the highest of any U.S. city. But our national recycling rate currently stands at

If you’ve been listening to the uproar about the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the healthcare law or “Obamacare,” then you’re probably scared out of your wits from tales of “death panels” and “government takeover.” And you’d have good reason to be concerned — if those allegations were accurate.
But let’s put politics aside for a moment and take a closer look at the changes made so far by the new law. You might just be pleasantly surprised.
Important changes have already taken effect to control the cost of health insurance and rein in some of the worst insurance company

When my agent said Ralph Bakshi was casting an animated movie to be co-directed by Frank Frazetta, I thought, ho hum. It was called Fire and Ice and they needed a queen of the Fire Planet. Bakshi’s blue cartoon Fritz the Cat had been a huge success, but in the early ’80s, doing the image and voice of an animated character was not considered a coup… despite how respected Frazetta and Bakshi

I love a cake that can also, if you really reach, be considered a bread. And if said cake has a fruit in it — bonus points. It’s as if you’d be doing yourself a disservice by not eating a piece, because, in essence, you’re skipping out on some crucial vitamins and minerals … right?
Eh, it was worth a

Getting rid of the “spousal refusal” allowance will heartlessly force elderly New Yorkers to consider divorce in order to qualify their sick spouses for the care they need.
Gov. Cuomo is not alone in wanting to reign in costs for Medicaid, the health program for low-income persons that costs states big money. But his proposal to eliminate the “spousal refusal” allowance in his next budget is a bad idea, one that will heartlessly encourage divorce among New York’s most vulnerable elderly.
The “spousal refusal” allowance has been that rare and wonderful example of a state policy that works well. Unlike most states, New York’s policy allows the assets of a healthier spouse to be protected if an ill spouse needs to qualify for long-term care through Medicaid.
Most people do not realize that long-term care is not paid for by Medicare or by most private insurance

As I take up invitations around the country to discuss the Blue Republican idea, I am learning a great deal about how our minds are opened and even changed when it comes to politics. In a slight departure from my usual topics, I offer the following in the hope that other engaged citizens may find my experience useful in their own attempts to improve our nation…
No one arrives at his or her political preferences as a result of only, or even mostly, logical argument (despite fervently held feelings to the contrary). Rather, people find themselves most easily convinced by arguments that support political views to which they have become committed for often highly complex reasons that the their conscious mind may never even know.
Political allegiances and views are sticky: If you significantly change them, you are potentially changing your relationships with everyone with whom you have shared them — perhaps including your wife, husband, or kids etc.; you are potentially saying that you were wrong in hundreds of conversations when you insisted you were right; you may even have to stop doing things that you have been doing passionately — or start doing things that you’d rather not be bothered with.
When you’re discussing politics, then, you’re really not doing politics: You’re doing

Satellites are crucial to modern life. We rely on them for civilian uses such as TV, Internet, ATM banking, GPS, agriculture, and weather forecasting. On the military side, we use satellites to guide munitions, operate drones, gather intelligence, and monitor enemy movements. Unfortunately, satellites are increasingly

While many classic drinks — the Martini, Manhattan and Old Fashioned, for example —
date back more than a century, there’s one cocktail just about any bartender will know that’s not even 30 years old.
The Cosmopolitan was hands-down one of the most popular concoctions of the last decade. Its fascinating history begins in 1985, when Miami bartender Cheryl Cook first combined citrus-flavored vodka, Cointreau, lime juice and just the barest splash of cranberry juice to make it pink.
From there, the tipple caught on with a pair of New York bartenders who served a celebrity clientele.
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The combination of dramatically rising rents, ridiculously low mortgage rates and bolstered consumer confidence in our fragile, yet seemingly slowly recovering economy has created a perfect storm of buyer enthusiasm. With rental rates increasing up to 10 percent over the last year, renters are beginning to ask themselves a very important question: Why pay a landlord $3,000 plus a month’s rent for a one-bedroom (on average), when I can buy for the same amount?
But there’s just one problem. Brokers aren’t the only ones frustrated about the lack of great inventory out there. Buyers are feeling the effects of tight inventory too, and realizing they may have to compromise on long lists of “must haves.” So, how do you find the perfect apartment?
As my dear mentor Tony Robbins says, “Where focus goes, energy flows.” Little things done every day produce extraordinary

We mourn Trayvon Martin, the young African American who, armed only with candy and a soft drink, was shot dead for the offense of “walking while black.”
George Zimmerman, the vigilante who shot him, has not been arrested, apparently protected by Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which “authorizes” anyone to shoot someone whom he or she feels is threatening.
This surely is a test of our faith. Faith, the Bible tells us, is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For decades, African Americans risked their lives if they walked in certain neighborhoods. The

When my husband and I arrived for dinner at the Waves Grill on the 12th deck of the Oceania Marina, our table for two was set with colorful bone china and crystal wine glasses. But instead of flowers, the dinner table decor was quite different this night: Seder plates were arranged at the center of every table with the symbolic holiday foods of Passover: a lamb shank bone, hard-boiled egg, parsley, salt water for dipping, bitter herbs and haroset (a mixture of apples, nuts and sweet red wine).
As secular Jews, we never missed a Passover celebration when our two sets of parents were alive. But one of the perils of becoming adult orphans is that along with the loss of caregiving responsibilities, your newfound freedom makes it easy to also lose sight of the traditions handed down by

I’ll never forget the day I tried to put a plaid shirt with plaid shorts on my son. I thought it was fine, but it seems I was very, very, wrong. Every woman I’ve ever known thought I had recently suffered a head injury, and even a couple of my guy friends thought I was somewhat visually impaired. Clearly my son’s chances at the Supreme Court were diminishing.
Can you guess who didn’t care? My son.
I don’t believe children’s fashion is an important part of

The reasons we should care about children’s fashion go way beyond our kids looking exceptional. Way beyond. Children’s fashion is about more than aesthetics, and, for parents, it can make a bold statement about what we support, who we support, and what we want for our children.
In these days when farmer’s markets and co-ops are more accessible, people are taking the opportunity to more concretely determine where their money goes, and applying that freedom to as many of their purchasing decisions as

It’s the last installment of the battle rounds on “The Voice” (finally!) and you know what that means … You never have to look at the bedazzled discus Christina calls a hat ever again.
And in honor of the special occasion, our mom has joined us to mock Cee Lo’s silk pajamas, Carson’s struggle for relevancy and everything in between this week.
So without further ado, find out the final six contestants who will be making to the live shows below!
BATTLE: James Massone

I’m a born-and-bred New Yorker, which means a lot of things. I rarely see Broadway shows. I can’t remember the last time I visited the Statue of Liberty. Hell, I don’t even have a driver’s

To the surprise of Bethenny Frankel fans and skeptics everywhere, last week wasn’t a total s—storm like we’d anticipated. Queen B kept her cool on the boat ride from hell, did a little role-playing with Hoppy and Dr. Armadillo (no, not that kind of role playing) and made it safe and sound to her beautiful baby Bryn. But just because the not-so-newlywed couple escaped a potentially rigged catastrophe death, doesn’t mean their problems vanished into the Nantucket

One sudden and unforeseen opportunity, taken up with the quick audacity born of youth, love, listlessness and whiskey-fueled relationship summits, has led me and my boyfriend to decide to move 9,000 miles away.
To Indonesia. Jakarta, to be precise. Where we will be living together, something we’ve never done in the one-year tenure of our relationship here in San

“[I]t will come, but I shall not see it … It is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage. It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation.”
Susan

We’ve spent billions of dollars – perhaps trillions – to rescue big banks. But instead of dialing back on the risky behavior that shattered the economy in 2008, they’re doubling down on it. And when their bill comes due we won’t just be asked to pay it again. We’ll be asked to take the blame for it again, too.
But who are the real deadbeats in this country? Banks acted recklessly in the years leading up to the financial crisis – and ran up a bill which the rest of us have been paying since

Previously on “Smash”: “This isn’t a high school science project, it’s a bloody muscial!” “You know what I’m in the middle of!” “Do you wanna fix the show or indulge in paranoid fantasies?”
Presented without commentary, the most absurd, comical, self-serious and/or humorless moments from episode 8, “The Coup,” in chronological order.
1. “I hate show business.”
2. Frank’s chest hair.
3. “Now we have Leo’s court date.”

The Republican primary race this election year was planned in advance to be more competitive and less of a “coronation” of whichever candidate emerged as the early frontrunner. Republicans had looked at the 2008 Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and concluded it would serve as a good model for their own next primary season. Two major changes were instituted by the party to further this goal: stretching the primary schedule out, so it wasn’t so front-loaded, and making the earlier states award their delegates proportionally, instead of awarding all of them to the winner (even if he or she won by only one vote). Both of these innovative modifications to party rules were meant to make the race “more competitive” and hence more exciting to the viewers at

“[I]t will come, but I shall not see it … It is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage. It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation.”
Susan