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Catholic nuns are predators, too? Anyone who attended Catholic grade school can testify to witnessing nuns display spasms of demonic violence. Witnessing that informed the cynicism I vented earlier this year (on February 26) in “More Catholic Depravity: Nuns Pimping Orphans to Priests.” But if nuns could serve as madams for pedophile priests, it’s hardly… Read more.
Alas, it seems big men having sex with small boys is just another form of Boy Scouts training; you know, like learning first-aid and survival skills. Catholic Church set the precedent Of course, the Catholic Church set the abominable precedent for child sex abuse. Revelations about the scourge of pedophilia in that institution have caused irreparable reputational damage. Indeed, the damage… Read more.
Jeffrey Epstein was arguably the most notorious sex trafficker in US history. He was also a serial rapist with too many victims to count, invariably too young. Epstein pimped many of his victims out to his rich and powerful friends. That might explain how he amassed a fortune of over $500 million. Because I suspect many of those friends fell prey… Read more.
For years, billionaires have used their influence to keep ‘riffraff’ off their section of Malibu beach. They’ve been trying to buy private access to public beaches. I decried these efforts a decade ago in my post titled “Rich Snobs Trying to Keep Public off Public Beaches,” April 18, 2005. The media pilloried entertainment mogul David Geffen for leading their futile efforts back… Read more.
Many young women wear Spanx these days. But they take umbrage at the suggestion that their Spanx is a modern version of the girdle their grandmothers wore. Spanx: a girdle by another name It takes willful self-delusion to deny this analogy. After all, the natural letdown women see on their Spanx-free bodies reveals the naked truth. The irony is… Read more.
What passes for journalism at the moment? This blog brims with commentary on my disdain for what passes for journalism these days. So, imagine my dismay when 60 Minutes, the reputed standard bearer of broadcast journalism, only reinforced my disdain on Sunday. On October 27, 60 Minutes aired a highly touted report on the 9/11/12 terrorist attack on the US consulate in… Read more.
A tale of two drugs For over 25 years, many politicians, including the late Senator Ted Kennedy, fought to redress the imbalance between federally mandated sentences for possession of crack cocaine and the powder form of the drug. For example, a person convicted of possessing five grams of crack cocaine got the same mandatory sentence… Read more.
I published “Good Riddance: Anorexic Models No Longer Reign in Spain” on September 14, 2006. It was the eve of New York Fashion Week. And I hoped to join far more influential trendsetters in shaming organizers. That is, by highlighting the decision organizers of Madrid Fashion Week made to ban skinny models. Skinny models reign It had no impact.… Read more.
On Monday, Oprah released excerpts from an interview she and her “best friend” Gayle King did for the August issue of her own O, The Oprah Magazine, for which Gayle is editor-at-large. In it they deny they’re gay – though insist, of course, that “there’s nothing wrong with being gay.” Oprah begins: I understand why… Read more.
Celebrities enjoy a contrived relationship with the paparazzi. The relationship Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt orchestrate with the paparazzi illustrates this in spades. Jolie and Pitt as immigration officers But imagine a world so obsessed with and deferential to celebrities that they can get governments to do this: Jolie and Pitt pressured Namibian authorities … to hand over… Read more.
