Rethinking David Letterman: Exactly How Are We Supposed to Feel About All This?
We have not yet, as a pop culture-breathing, tabloid-fueled nation, decided how we feel about powerful older guys seducing the young women who work for them.
We have not yet, as a pop culture-breathing, tabloid-fueled nation, decided how we feel about powerful older guys seducing the young women who work for them.
The Independent | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
John Lichfield | The Independent The new French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, is fighting to save his brief ministerial career after opp...
Bruce Kluger | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
David Letterman successfully navigated his way through three explosive crises -- personal, professional and legal -- by simply telling the truth.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.03.2009 | Comedy
"This is an amazing discovery," said Professor Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota. "It suggests that having sex with interns goes back a lot further than any of us thought."
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
Independent | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
By Michael Day in Milan | The Independent The businessman who is said to have supplied call girls for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's noto...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 09.02.2009 | Comedy
This video was apparently recorded sometime over the weekend by a possibly sober Dan Tubagoo, who issued the following statement: "Dan Tubagoo owns me money and I is no longer his publicist."
Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
In the news articles and op-ed pieces about extramarital affairs, there is always a perpetrator and a victim. These are stories about Good and Evil, the righteous and the sinner.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.12.2009 | Comedy
"I misread my package's needs," the senator said. "It needs significantly more stimulus than I originally thought."
Bill Folman | Posted 08.02.2009 | Comedy
Finally, we have a new euphemism for extramarital relations and an artful one at that: "hiking the Appalachian trail."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) apologized to his Republican colleagues at Tuesday's weekly conference lunch, his first meeting with them since the sex scan...
Johann Hari | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Memo to America: Grow. Up. Have you forgotten the lesson of Lewinsky so soon?
Larry Arnstein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Finding a ring of high class hookers in Washington is like going outside and throwing a rock, in pretty much any direction.
The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.27.2009 | World
Edison Chen, the Chinese-Canadian pop star embroiled in a sex scandal after thousands of lurid photos were released last year, appeared in British Col...
ABC News | Anna Schecter, Rhonda Schwartz and Brian Ross | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business
Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes, according ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...
The Independent | John Lichfield | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken the unprecedented step of suing the former chief of a French internal intelligence service, pursuing his long, vic...
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.18.2008 | Living
I know that women cheat -- statistics reveal that the number of married women having affairs is on the rise. But why aren't powerful, middle-aged political women ever caught in sex scandals?
Vicky Ward | Posted 08.14.2008 | Entertainment
The process of celebrity divorce can be so public, lurid and undignified that you have to wonder why these people can't sit down with a mediator and work it all out.
Politicker | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
Via Politicker: Eliot Spitzer is just the latest in a long list of political sex scandals that goes back to the Continental Congress. Politicker.com ...
Associated Press | Matthew Daly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A former aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell is in federal custody after being arrested on a charge of attempting to sexually exploit a minor. James Michael ...
The Columbian | JEFFREY MIZE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
State Rep. Richard Curtis, R-La Center, admitted to having sex with a man he met at an adult video store in Spokane last week, according to a police r...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
A Minnesota court on Tuesday granted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig a hearing on his request to let him take back the guilty plea he made after his arrest in a...
Eric Deggans | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media