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Category Archives: Adultery
Ultra-Orthodox Find Unorthodox Ways Of Screwing Around
Truly shocking news from the New York Post: It seems everyone is cheating nowadays. Even Ultra-Orthodox Jews are flocking to a new site made for Kosher cheating: Apparently God did not make the commandment “Thou shall not commit adultery” clear … Continue reading
The New York Times Must’ve Been Right In Its Reporting About John McCain’s Entanglement With Hot Blonde Lobbyist Vicki Iseman
That’s the only way I can interpret the following story: NEW YORK Vicki Iseman, the Washington, D.C., lobbyist who had sued The New York Times for $27 million over an article last year that she claimed wrongly depicted her as … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, John McCain
Tagged cindy mccain, dean baquet, national enquirer, sen john mccain, senator john mccain, washington bureau chief
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Without His Mistress Margaret, There Would’ve Been No Great Naipaul Novels After 1970
Was Naipaul’s great writing worth the sin of his passionate illicit relationship with Margaret of Argentina? Perhaps what I need to spark my writing is a good affair. Such a shame I am so moral, so corralled by the Holy … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Literature, V S Naipaul
Tagged Adultery, carnal desires, catherine watson, fantasy life, friend marisa, holy torah, illicit relationship, mistress, patrick french, quot, thomas hardy, V S Naipaul, vidia
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Why No Reporting On The Special Relationship Between Pinch Sulzberger and Caroline Kennedy?
Gawker nails it (MSM: Keep rockin’.): Don’t even bother to leave a comment at the Times local news blog suggesting a sexy patrician affair between the Senator-to-be and the publisher of the Times. It seems like a mostly legitimate question … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Journalism
Tagged Caroline Kennedy, fair game, legitimate question, pinch sulzberger, sexual lives, special relationship
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Cindy McCain’s Shock Kiss
The National Enquirer has published a photo of Cindy McCain kissing a guy not John McCain. Gawker says: Your National Enquirer newspaper has published photos purporting to show Cindy McCain, fragile, lonely beer heiress wife to Senator John McCain, kissing … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Politics
Tagged baby mama, cindy mccain, John McCain, national enquirer, phoenix metro area, senator john mccain
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Where’s The Ring, John?
From the NY Post: "IS it over between John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth? "The wedding band is missing," the Washington Post reported yesterday after covering a speech the cancer-stricken mother of two gave in DC on Monday night. Edwards, … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, John Edwards
Tagged cheating husband, John Edwards, mother and child, north carolina senator, ny post, wife elizabeth
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Rabbi’s Book Seeks To Prevent Adultery
From the Miami Herald: Photos BY LYDIA MARTIN [email protected] Worried your man might cheat? A Miami Beach rabbi who is a regular on the talk-show circuit (he’s been on Oprah nine times, twice this month), says you need to greet … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Rabbis
Tagged bestseller list, hardcover advice, lydia martin, miamiherald, reason men, turkey bacon
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Sarah Palin’s Affair
From the National Enquirer: In a world exclusive The NATIONAL ENQUIRER names GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin’s secret lover! No less than three members of the man’s family including one by sworn affidavit have claimed that Sarah Palin engaged in … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Sarah Palin
Tagged brother craig, hanson family, national enquirer, Sarah Palin, sworn affidavit, vp candidate
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Screwed By Rev. Wright
From the New York Post: He almost wrecked Barack Obama‘s presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker’s marriage – and her job, The Post has learned. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Adultery
Tagged employment opportunity commission, equal employment opportunity, equal employment opportunity commission, friendship west baptist church, Jeremiah Wright, wrongful dismissal claim
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Growing Up Adventist: A Dialogue Between Luke Ford and Gary Chartier
Learning to live in community. A sense of belonging. Seventh-Day Adventism is a whole life system from diet to worship to study. I felt like I was on the periphery. I wanted to be in the burning middle. All the … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Personal
Tagged chartier, luke ford, periphery, seventh day adventism, whole life
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