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The Psychology Of Nakedness

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Jonah Lehrer - Nov. 30 (Special Report) - The human mind sees minds everywhere. Show us a collection of bouncing balls and we hallucinate agency; a glance at a stuffed animal and we endow it with a mood; I’m convinced Siri doesn’t like me. The point is that we are constantly translating our visual perceptions into a theory of mind, as we attempt to imagine the internal states of teddy bears, microchips and perfect strangers.

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Indecision 2012 - After Dark, Oooh Yeah

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 29 (Opinion) - Another woman steps forward in the Herman Cain scandal, claiming a 13-year affair with him, but Cain insists he never sealed the deal.

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Rachel Maddow: Herman Cain Lawyer's Comment 'Shocked' Me (VIDEO)

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Nov. 11 (News Analysis) - She then turned to Wood's comment. It was, she said, a "remarkable moment," because a lawyer was telling potential harassment victims to "shut up," and seemingly threatening them with some kind of retribution if they didn't. Pointing to the heap of abuse that Sharon Bialek, the first accuser to go public, has received, Maddow said that the threat "does not appear to be idle."

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Jon Stewart Mocks Herman Cain's Press Conference

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 10 (Comedy News) - Jon Stewart's ongoing field day with the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal continued Wednesday night, with Stewart ripping apart the GOP presidential candidate's damage control...

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Jon Stewart Mocks Herman Cain's Sexual Harassment Scandal

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 01 (Comedy News) - Given all the parodies of pornography that involve a pizza delivery guy, it's only natural that Jon Stewart would get some material out of presidential...

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Jon Stewart Takes On Fox News' Reaction To Nancy Grace 'DWTS' Nip Slip vs. Chaz Bono (VIDEO)

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Sep. 28 (Comedy News) - Stewart picked up where his fellow "Daily Show" correspondent Lewis Black left off, taking on the outrage over Chaz Bono's gig on "Dancing With The Stars" vs. that of Nancy Grace's recent wardrobe malfunction on the same show.

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Gay GOP Candidate Calls Bachmann A Liar, 'Hypocrite And Bigot'

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jul. 14 (News Report) - Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger, the first openly-gay contender to vie for his party's nomination, sharply criticized rival GOP hopeful Michele Bachmann in an exclusive interview with the Michigan Messenger published online on Wednesday. Karger took aim at Bachmann over controversial therapy methods reportedly practiced at her husband's Minnesota clinic.

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Two studies show that drugs used to treat AIDS can be used to prevent HIV infection, too

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Brown - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Two new studies done in three African countries have shown for the first time that AIDS drugs taken daily can cut by more than half a person’s chance of becoming infected with HIV through heterosexual intercourse.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Will Media Learn Anything?

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mediactive - By Dan Gillmor - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - In the days ahead — and especially after New York prosecutors drop their increasingly pathetic case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as they surely will — you’ll see some media coverage of journalism’s role in this debacle. There will be a few notes about how everyone rushed to judgment. But almost no one will be asking more basic questions about the way journalists go about their business in criminal cases. You will see little or no self-reflection about the way reporters work in concert with law enforcement in almost all such cases, in ways that are designed by the police and prosecutors to stack the deck against the accused. It starts with the “perp walk” — the parading of the accused before cameras. Try this thought experiment. Imagine you’ve been arrested, and have spent a night in a filthy jail cell, getting maybe an hour of sleep in the clothes you were wearing the day before. Or, perhaps, you’ve been told to put on an orange jump suit that prisoners wear. Either way, now you’re shackled and frog-walked into a van that takes you to the courthouse. Then you’re manhandled out of the van and are frog-walked through a gauntlet of cameras and shouting reporters. How do you imagine you’d look, whether or not you were innocent? You’d look guilty as hell, because the perp walk is designed to make you look guilty. (For more on perp walks, see this piece from the Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins.)

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Lessons of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Bernard-Henri Lévy - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over. For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end. If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor. In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair.

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DSK Accuser's African Connection

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Christopher Dickey - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - pride of place goes to the photograph of Fofanah and Alpha Condé, who was elected last November as president of Guinea, the country from which DSK’s accuser immigrated and requested political asylum. Condé, as it turns out, also has extensive ties to major political players in France, including people close to—wait for it—both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn, who had been expected to be the incumbent’s main challenger in next year’s elections. You can see why the conspiracy-minded French find the case so fascinating.

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Strauss-Kahn Case Faces Test in Hearing

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, John Eligon - Jun. 30 (News Report) - The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.

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Supreme Court OK With Violent Video Games; Porn Still Illegal (for Minors)

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Jaffe - Jun. 29 (News Analysis) - Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association isn't just about video games. Within the decision, concurring opinion, and two dissents lie a host of issues, from whether pornography is really worse than depictions of violence to whether minors have any free speech rights at all (Clarence Thomas says, essentially, no). There's a discussion of whether the inherent interactive nature of games makes them different from previous media, and an acknowledgement that every medium before has produced a similar panic.

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Anthony Weiner to resign

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:54:09 -0700

The Politico - By Maggie Haberman, Jennifer Epstein - Jun. 16 (News) - According to two sources, Weiner made up his mind to resign Wednesday night.

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Rick Santorum vs. the internet

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Concord Monitor - By Meg Heckman - Jun. 13 (News Report) - Shortly before launching his presidential bid Monday, Rick Santorum used Twitter to declare himself "ready to lead." In the days that followed, his Facebook page and campaign website were updated regularly, and hundreds of news outlets published stories online about his political ambitions. But for anyone who searched Google for "Santorum," those weren't the first items they saw.

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The Electoral Effect of Sex Scandals

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - One point frequently raised in the coverage of Representative Anthony D. Weiner is that David Vitter, the Lousiana Senator who in 2007 acknowledged that he was a longtime client of a Washington-based prostitution service, did not resign his seat. In fact, Mr. Vitter won re-election with 56.6 percent of the vote last November. It’s not clear, however, that Mr. Vitter paid no price at all with his constituents. Mr. Vitter’s 19-percentage point margin of victory over his Democratic opponent, Representative Charlie Melancon, was quite solid. But incumbent Republican senators in five other Southern states — Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and South Carolina — won their elections by an average of 28 percentage points. (That’s what happens when you’re an incumbent in a very Republican part of the country in a very Republican year.) Perhaps a better comparison is to look at Mr. Vitter’s results against those of the four Republican incumbents in the House of Representatives who ran against Democratic opposition in Louisiana last year. These were the incumbents in the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Congressional Districts. (Louisiana’s Third Congressional District had no incumbent, while the Republican incumbents in the Fifth and Seventh Districts did not have a Democratic challenger.)

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Reid's advice to Weiner: "Call somebody else"

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Washington Post Staff - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Call somebody else.

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Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Scott Bronstein, Jessi Joseph - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live for. Siblings: Gay brother killed himself decades after treatment to make him more masculine

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The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - There are few things more sickening -- or revealing -- to behold than a D.C. sex scandal. Huge numbers of people prance around flamboyantly condemning behavior in which they themselves routinely engage. Media stars contrive all sorts of high-minded justifications for luxuriating in every last dirty detail, when nothing is more obvious than that their only real interest is vicarious titillation.

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Eve Ensler Responds to Sexual Assault Charges Filed Against Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Eve Ensler. Amy Goodman - Jun. 07 (Interview) - On Monday Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a housekeeper, a Muslim African woman, working at his New York City hotel. "I think what's amazing is that a woman has come forward to prosecute and that a female judge held it, and I think that is where the world has changed," says our guest, V-Day founder Eve Ensler.

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German insurance firm organised sex party for salesmen

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 02 (News) - One of the world's biggest insurance companies organised an orgy with prostitutes for its top salesmen at a Hungarian spa.

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U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lymari Morales - May. 28 (Poll) - U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian. More specifically, over half of Americans (52%) estimate that at least one in five Americans are gay or lesbian, including 35% who estimate that more than one in four are. Thirty percent put the figure at less than 15%.

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Sisterhood and the SEALs

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Journal - By Heather Mac Donald - May. 28 (Opinion) - It was just a matter of time before the successful Navy SEAL operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 provoked a complaint that SEAL teams are all-male.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of IMF

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Schneider, Zachary A. Goldfarb - May. 19 (News) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who is facing attempted rape charges in New York, announced his resignation late Wednesday night.

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Schwarzenegger Fathered A Child With Member Of Household Staff

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 17 (News Report) - Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple's home before they announced their separation last week.

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