Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is our only public official with enough chutzpah to denounce the despicable official and media homage to Michael Jackson, an accused child molester and admitted fan of sharing his bed with young boys. Rep. King boldly said on camera: “This lowlife Michael Jackson — his name, his face, his picture...
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Ruth Madoff makes Marie “Let them Eat Cake” Antoinette look like Mother Teresa. Thursday, when U.S. marshals forced Ruth Madoff out of the $7 million Manhattan penthouse paid for by money her husband, convicted felon Bernie Madoff, stole from his investors, she asked to take a fur coat with her. Go figure how she...
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Mark Sanford has written a tell-all book scheduled to be published by Penguin in 2010. Unfortunately for Penguin, however, Sanford is telling all about . . . his conservative political views. Since the book was written, Sanford has self-destructed, admitting that he cheated on his wife with his Argentinian mistress Maria Belen Chapur (and...
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 These celebrities are definitely Really Dead: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon. (Please folks, no more mention of the tired theory that celebrity deaths always happen in threes.) These celebrities are alive but TwitterDead: George Clooney, Jeff Goldblum, Harrison Ford, Natalie Portman, Randy Jackson and Britney Spears. TwitterDead is defined as someone who is...
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Republican infighting over the recent trashing of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair is bringing to the surface the long-bubbling conservative dislike of moderate “maverick” John McCain. Once McCain won the presidential nomination last year, most conservative Republicans supported him because he was better than the alternative, Barack Obama. Support on the right for McCain...
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Weddings have such a powerful hold on our psyches because they represent the romantic fantasy of a perfect soul mate who completes us and who will always make our heart race with excitement. I assume Mark Sanford and Jenny Sullivan felt this way when they got married at Christ Memorial Church in Florida on...
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Women “happiest at 28″ screams the headline, in the way only the British newspapers can. According to the article in the Telegraph’s Health News section, it’s all downhill after age 28 in all aspects of women’s lives. Well. That’s. Just. Great. As the average life expectancy of women is 80.1 years, that means we...
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Maria Belen Chapur, the mistress of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, broke her silence Sunday in a letter to the Argentinian TV station CN5, where she was briefly a reporter. The station is the source of the only photo of her yet. Oddly, after a week of hiding and biting her tongue, Chapur decided...
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Perhaps the reason Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) was so besotted by Maria Belen Chapur is his coming of age during the musicals “West Side Story” and “The Sound of Music,” both of which had songs of “Maria” that are catchy and get stuck in your head. “The Sound of Music” musical/movie “Maria” song is...
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She could be in the FBI’s Witness Protection Program, so elusive is the mysterious Maria of Mark Sanford fame. Photographers and reporters from media outlets around the world have been camped out in Argentina for the past week looking for the South Carolina Governnor’s mistress, Maria Belen Chapur, to no avail. Political scandal watchers...
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Although I waxed poetic recently on my desire to get married, new studies published in the Obesity Journal showing that marriage and obesity are directly linked makes me think twice. (OK, I thought, I still want to get married; I’ll just add a mile to my daily run.) Penny Gordon-Larsen, associate professor of nutrition...
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