Excellent piece in Salon on why Anthony Weiner is getting denounced by the same congress critters who backed Charlie Rangel, who was actually accused of real ethics violations, and not just being a sad dude who bolsters his ego by getting ladies on the internet to tell him he's sexy. Basically,…
New York Democratic Congressman Rep. Anthony Weiner may have violated House Ethics Rules by offering a porn star help from his public relations team. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called Monday for an Ethics Committee investigation of Weiner after he admitted that he tweeted a lewd photo to a college…
The dating website SugarSugar.com has offered Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) a large sum of money to become the company’s official spokesperson. Weiner admitted Monday that he tweeted a lewd photo to a college student and then falsely claimed his Twitter account had been hacked to cover up the incident. RELATED:…
WASHINGTON — There was little sympathy among US politicians Tuesday for Anthony Weiner, one day after the US Democratic congressman admitted in a teary-eyed press conference to maintaining a string of lewd online relationships. Weiner, 46, said he was “deeply ashamed” for his behavior, which included sending a close-up picture…
I have a piece at the Guardian's CIF about this whole Anthony Weiner business, and why, even though this is primarily about attacking Weiner because he's a fighter, this fits into a larger pattern of right wing abuse of sexy young women for the high crime of being intellectually independent…
There's something to be said for the predicted "normal" response to events. It provides a comfortable frame of reference for people who were in no way affected by events to process what's happening to you; it also provides a template for shitty actors to mimic in movies rather than actually…
The US House of Representatives accepted an amendment to the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2011 on Thursday to eliminate all funding for the US Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent government-funded institution to analyze and prevent international conflict. “I am very pleased my amendment to end federal…