articles like this are part of why i love this site so much.

I don't think it's possible to be depressed with frequent whippings.

depression and addiction just became very sexy afflictions.

Does anybody know if Nixon has a Phd?

The whippings will continue until morale improves!!

this is my kind of doctor!

I read this article about a year ago, but the thing is, I can't tell if pravda is the Russian theonion. Sometimes I think it is, but I don't know enough about Russia to really know.

Didn't most people already know that whipping increases endorphins and, in fact, isn't that exactly why people do it?

Dr. Nixon. Wow.

That's it! I'm moving to Siberia! It was going to happen sooner of later anyway.

I'd have thought so; it seems pretty obvious to me. But then, more data is usually good, and if you can get paid to whip/be whipped then more power to you Siberian Scientists.

nice....

well, if that's all they're going to pay for, no thanks.

Don't you hate when you go through the trouble to go somewhere and find out that you are already there