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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Rhode Island Red? Patrick Kennedy Announces He Won’t Seek Re-Election

He once called Scott Brown’s Senate campaign a “joke,” but now the Brown Revolution has driven Teddy’s son from Congress: A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress. . . . The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a […]

Iowa Court OKs 17-Year-Old Strippers

It’s art! Nude dancing is still an art form in Iowa, at least at a strip club in the tiny town of Hamburg. The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed the state’s request for a review of the issue. The request followed a judge’s 2008 decision that Clarence Judy, then-owner of Shotgun Geniez, didn’t […]

‘Chief Investigative Reporter’ for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Resigns After Plagiarism Scandal

At least he wasn’t just making up stuff: Amid additional allegations of plagiarism, journalist and South Beach resident Gerald Posner announced via his blog and Twitter that he has resigned from The Daily Beast, the year-old Internet news publication co-founded by Tina Brown. Posner wrote that his boss, Daily Beast Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal, called […]

Poll Question: Gays in the Military

“A new CBS News/ New York Times poll finds that the wording of the question is key when it comes to determining whether Americans support allowing gays to serve in the military.” — Kevin Hechtkopf, CBS News Q. How would you feel if you turned on the TV and saw a Navy admiral flouncing down […]

Democrats Accuse My Alma Mater of Conservative Political Bias

How awesome is this? Alabama state Democratic Party officials are calling for the resignation of Jacksonville State University Government Relations Director Don Killingsworth after what they called “a blatant display of partisanship on what Killingsworth himself termed a ‘no electioneering’ campus.” In a statement released Tuesday, party officials accused Killingsworth and the university of showing […]

Anne Hathaway Quits Catholic Church After Pope Condemns Sideboob Display

Wait, no — that’s not exactly the reason: Anne grew up wanting to become a nun but shunned Catholicism when she learned her older brother, Michael, was gay. “The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out,” she tells the magazine. “Why should I support an organization that has a limited view […]

Alabama Attorney General Troy King Continues to Defend Casino Gambling

While I was in Alabama, the front pages of newspapers were dominated by reports of the state task force attempting to raid illegal electronic bingo operations. And the man being blamed for the confusion — which has sparked political and legal turmoil in the state — is Alabama’s Republican attorney general, Troy King. On the […]

It’s Who You Know

Alexandra Penney calls herself an artist:  I take pictures of blowup dolls, and I use them as ciphers to comment on society, about sex and consumerism, to comment about artifice and superficiality. Alexandra Penney used to be editor of Self magazine. She is the author of How to Make Love to a Man. (Apparently, some people […]

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