News, Etc.

James Auchincloss is sent back to jail over child porn charges, while the prosecutor can't resist taking a cheap shot at his family, a family that has reportedly had NOTHING to do with him for years.

Auchincloss was said to have been a source for Kitty Kelley's Jackie Oh!  and Onassis was said to have been so pissed off at him, she cut him off.  The book was published way back in 1978.

Jackie died in 1994--seventeen years ago--and it can be assumed the family has had little if any contact with the Auchincloss black sheep ever since.
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Rep. Anthony Weiner is misogynist, idiotic, and arrogant, but what else does his scandal mean?

Scandal-mongering allows the ruling elite to conduct its internecine battles without any interference from the masses. This or that politician can be eliminated without acknowledging the issues involved.

In this case, it appears the Murdoch-owned media targeted Weiner at least in part because he was the presumed frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City in 2013, when the current mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, leaves office because of term limits.

More generally, both capitalist parties use such scandals to position themselves against each other while avoiding any discussion of political substance.

I can't argue with that.
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Another lie exposed as government pension funds won't be bankrupting states.