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Rupert Murdoch Divorces Wendi Deng

“Wendi has been informed.” – Amy Chozick [via Twitter] WHAT COULD possibly go wrong in a marriage with 38 years difference between the man and the woman? But don’t worry about Rupert Murdoch, dumping his third wife won’t affect News Corp’s break up. The split was first reported by Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood. Murdoch [...]

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JFK’s Equal Pay Act Meets ‘The Feminine Mystique’

TODAY is the 50 year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which was signed by John F. Kennedy. President Obama is commemorating the event and prodding action by Congress. Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Act, while Republicans opposed it and continue to do so by opposing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Once again, it’s Senator Kirsten [...]

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Michael Douglas: Oral Sex Caused My Throat Cancer

IN AN amazing interview with the Guardian on Sunday titled, appropriately, “Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus,” the movie star does the biggest public service message for HPV and sexually transmitted diseases that’s been done in a generation. The Internet exploded with shock at what was taken as a revelation. It’s like thinking [...]

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A Brit’s View: An Affair Bigger Than Major/Currie, Let Twitter be the Judge

No, this isn’t another “cash for questions” victim, although there have been further implications on that front since last I wrote. This is instead the affair coming out of 10 Downing Street that is so big, so huge, that the Mail On Sunday can only print the story without naming names. Apparently it is bigger [...]

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Marsha Blackburn Shrugs off Workplace Equality

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy THE CONVERSATION on “Meet the Press” Sunday got interesting and very revealing, with Republican Marsha Blackburn having the unmitigated gall to suggest that women’s economic equality wasn’t of prime importance. MR. AXELROD: How about pay equity laws to ensure that women are treated [...]

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The Erotic Revolution in Iran

Again, there are no good countrywide statics on the number of prostitutes — the head of Iran’s state-run Social Welfare Organization recently told the BBC: “Certain statistics have no positive function in society; instead, they have a negative psychological impact. It is better not to talk about them” — but available figures suggest that 10 [...]

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Feature – Newsweek Gets it Wrong on Relationships

Ms Garraway, 46, is fronting a campaign to encourage young women to think about fertility and giving birth much younger than “her generation”. As part of the campaign, Ms Garraway spent a day being transformed into a heavily pregnant 70 year-old by Adrian Rigby, a prosthetic make-up artist, to “shock and provoke debate about how [...]

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Erickson: Female Breadwinners Bad for Kids & Marriage

“Having mom as primary bread winner is bad for kids and bad for marriage.” – Erick Erickson IT HAS become a conservative chant lately, the latest from Erick Erickson. “War on men” from Suzanne Venker, Megan McArdle saying women should marry younger, they’re all attempting to resurrect Freud’s biology is destiny. Now Erick Erickson has [...]

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Mud, A Great Love Story

MUD MUD has been called the “best American movie at Cannes.” The trailer above doesn’t tell the deepest, most important part of Mud and neither do most of the reviews. It is, above all else, a love story. The script weaves a rope around Mud, played with extraordinary power and intensity by Matthew McConaughey, whose [...]

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Anthony Weiner Seeks Redemption from New Yorkers

“I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down. But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it my entire life. I hope I get a second chance to work for you.” – [...]

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Pat Robertson’s Advice on Infidelity

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Syria News | More ABC News Videos “Males have a tendency to wander a little bit. And what you want to do is make a home so wonderful he doesn’t want to wander.” – Pat Robertson INFIDELITY is expected of men, according to Pat Robertson. [...]

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Queer Talk: Marriage Equality Support in AZ, MI, VA

A recent Gallup Poll shows that support for marriage equality continues to increase across the nation, while state polls also show growing support, including in AZ, MI, VA, (Arizona, Michigan and Virginia). While not alone, those three states show significant swings. In general, as the Gallup Poll report headlines, “Same-Sex Marriage Support Solidifies Above 50% [...]

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Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Double Mastectomy

THIS is a sobering op-ed written by Angelina Jolie, a thoughtful actor and activist, with an incredibly supportive and loving partner, Brad Pitt. It was written to inform and share personally a choice that is difficult, radical and done in the hopes of ducking a fate of family genealogy. From the New York Times, Ms. [...]

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Queer Talk: Full Equality is the Goal

Marriage equality is the current enormous focus of the bigger goal of full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and via TPM, one response from Thursday’s pro-marriage equality vote in Minnesota reveals something about why the goal of equality is broader than marriage. After the bill passed, state Rep. Peggy Scott (R) said: [...]

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Martha’s Match.com Men-apalooza on “Today”

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The 71-year-old media mogul received more than 20,000 page views within days after loading her profile on to the site. She then weeded through 1,000 date requests before singling out a pair of possible matches: Larry and Stan. “I’m slightly apprehensive, but not [...]

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