The Other McCain

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

Public Education: Making It Easy for Sexual Predators to Find Their Prey

When he was about 30 and teaching high-school band in Georgia in the late 1980s, Robert Hamberg divorced his wife, Jacque, and married 18-year-old Diane, his former student who had once baby-sat his children. Well, OK. Creepy and unethical, perhaps, but not illegal. However, reasonable people might think that such behavior would have put an […]

Vince Shlomi’s ShamWow ‘Love Slave’

Pictured above is 23-year-old Jennifer Kosinski, a model who worked as a personal assistant for Vince Shlomi — the famous TV informercial pitch-man for ShamWow and Slap Chop — and who has now filed a federal lawsuit against her 46-year-old former boss: Kosinski moved to Miami Beach, where she became Shlomi’s personal assistant (and lived rent-free […]

Ivy League Administration Reacts Quickly to Ivy League Sexual Harassment Charges

“Because the budget is so last week,” Wombat snarked in sharing the headline this morning: White House targets sexual assault on campus Wombat and other readers can be forgiven for wondering why this issue suddenly popped to the top of the administration’s agenda. But then again, we can’t afford to send our kids to Yale University […]

14-Year-Old Suspended for Exposing School Secretary’s Porn Star Career

Education news from Canada: A teenager has been suspended from classes after revealing on a Facebook page that an office assistant at his Quebec City-area high school was moonlighting as porn star in her off-hours. According to news reports, the 14-year-old alleged administrators at Etchemins Secondary School in Levis, Que., also threatened him with criminal […]

UPDATE: The Girl Scouts Sex Scandal

My post Saturday about the March 2010 Girl Scouts scandal — involving a Planned Parenthood “Healthy, Happy and Hot” pamphlet made available at a United Nations conference event — drew some blowback from commenter Paul Katz: The whole thing was a far-religious right slander campaign against the Girl Scouts. . . . Anyone or any blog reposting […]

Because You Can Never Get Enough Sex: Alcee Hastings, Bill Clinton, and Britney

Has the world gone freaking crazy with Charlie Sheen as Patient Zero of a psycho-pandemic? Here are few recent headlines of interest: The former bodyguard for Britney Spears, who claims she sexually harassed him, now claims that Britney took pictures of her lady-parts on her cell phone and texted them to him. A former staffer […]

A Beatles Lyric Comes to Mind

“Well, she was just 17, you know what I mean …” It takes on a completely different connotation if you think of it in terms of front-page headlines: Prince Andrew risks losing ambassador job as girl in underage sex case reveals meeting him — Daily Mail The lads on Fleet Street know how to play a […]

The Other Shoe Drops: ‘Sexy, Classy Guy’ Chris Lee Was Looking for Trannies

Two transsexual hookers contacted Gawker to tell about responding to this Craigslist ad: Sexy Classy guy for passable TS/CD – m4t – 39 (Cap Hill) Date: 2011-01-14, 8:55PM EST New to area. Very fit classy, successful guy. 39, 6ft 190lbs, blond/blue. smooth hard body. Looking for a sexy ts/cd that i can spoil. I promise […]

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