Maybe a little more so than Ray otherwise seems to be, though the idea of a creature that carries around its own ball of excrement probably hits a little too close to home for him to appreciate the metaphor.
Dmitry Lipkin, who created “Hung” with wife and writing partner Colette Burson, also gave us the dark, and occasionally very funny, FX series “The Riches,” a show about a family of con artists that owed much to comic Eddie Izzard, who made Lipkin’s tale of identity theft on a grand scale seem plausible.
Jane is utterly believable as the hapless Ray, who, during the show’s first four episodes, lurches from one disaster to another. But his character’s a little too weighted down — and, no, not by the equipment you never actually see — to make his leap into male prostitution seem like anything but a plot device forced on him by writers trying a little too hard to make a point.

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McGreevey was not the first politician to deliver a jaw-dropping career bomb on live television. Remember New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the prostitutes, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig and the undercover police officer in the airport men’s room, even Richard Nixon in the 1960s throwing a temper tantrum because he lost the California governor’s race by a landslide.
On Wednesday, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford became the club’s newest member, explaining to a press conference at the state capital, and to afternoon cable viewers around the country, that he really hadn’t been hiking the Appalachian Trail for the past week. Actually, he’d secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress, with whom he’d broken up.

What he didn’t say was that agents had allegedly caught the governor, also the state’s former attorney general, on a federal wiretap soliciting prostitutes. He later resigned.

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Topping off the night was a stormy, stomping set by headliners Def Leppard who trolled through their ’80s hits — a picture-perfect “Photograph,” a semi-acoustic “Bringin’ On The Heartache” and a slamming, set-closing “Rock Of Ages”  — like the working class punters they once were before Pyromania went mega-platinum. The one real surprise was a crunchy cover of David Essex’s “Rock On.” But the highlight of the Lep’s set was undoubtedly the stripper-anthem “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, which the band laid down with silhouetted images of gyrating pole-workers projected on the big screen behind them. A couple of jokesters, with a taste for the literal, ran through the crowd clutching boxes of granulated sugar, baptizing themselves and anyone nearby with the sweet, sticky stuff. Every rose has its thorn, indeed.

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The latest reports included the unsurprising news that TLC will halt production of the reality TV show that turned an evangelical Christian couple into rockstars. Slightly more shocking is a report that Jon and Kate lived apart for two years before moving to make their separation final.
Their divorce papers were supposedly sealed, but the Associated Press obtained a copy today, and reports that Kate believes their 10-year marriage is “irretrievably broken.“
She also says they have been unable to come to terms on how to divide their assets. The Gosselins had portrayed themselves as happy up until the past few months, even renewing their wedding vows in Hawaii last year.
The saddest thing is not that Jon and Kate are ending their marriage, though that too is sad. It’s the unmistakable air of schadenfreude that accompanies an evangelical’s downfall. Think of disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard being outed for his drug use and relations with a male prostitute or the surfacing of semi-nude photos of Carrie Prejean.

See the full article from “The Jewish Journal of greater L.A”

An equally measured note was struck by Sen. Bill Baroni, a key GOP voice on the Judiciary Committee.
“Whether Barry Albin was a conservative Republican, a moderate Democrat, no matter what, we owe it to the constitution to do a thorough review,” Baroni (R-Mercer) said. He added that committee Chairman Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen) “was right, it shouldn’t become a political circus. But my view was it should never have been in the first place.”
Albin, 56, who lives in Warren Township, Somerset County, was one of the most sought-after criminal trial attorneys in New Jersey before joining the court, and he took cases such as defending a police officer accused of running a brothel. He also served as an assistant prosecutor in Passaic and Middlesex Counties from 1978 to 1982. Democratic Gov. James E. McGreevey, his longtime friend, appointed him in 2002.

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The code “needs certain corrections to comply” with state laws, she said.
The ordinance is not new, and only a few minor changes were made, according to Sherlock, who said, “‘Adult Oriented Establishments’ will now be known as ‘Adult Entertainment Establishments.’”
The borough council’s executive session on Jan. 20 dealt with the litigation regarding the constitutional right to operate a gentleman’s club in Morrisville.
Todd Colarusso, a principal in the New Jersey-based Stockham Interests LLC, is suing the borough and contends Morrisville zoning ordinances “impose restrictions and prohibitions on First Amendment protected expression.”
The developer wants to put in a burlesque-style theater with topless women in the building. Other proposed uses in the building would be a health club and a restaurant.
Colarusso’s application for a strip club was unanimously rejected in May 2008 by the Morrisville Zoning Hearing Board.

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King has Rhett Titus and a couple of local strippers in his corner.  Omega with a hammerlock to start, but King reverses into a series of armdrags.  Omega with a headscissors, King escapes, and they trade legscissors.  Austin Aries comes out to take the girls to the back in a subtle spot I’m not sure everyone noticed.  Omega sends King to the floor with a spinkick, but misses a baseball slide.  Titus and King try to double team Omega on the floor, but King accidentally nails Titus and Omega hits a big dive from the ring to the floor.  He needs to be careful with those dives, he sometimes gets a little too much air on them like in Montreal.  Back in the ring, Omega hits a big running elbow in the corner and a dropkick to the back of the head for 2.  King goes to the eyes and tries his somersault kick, but Omega blocks and hits a spinkick …

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TEEN FACES WEAPON CHARGE: A 15-year-old Middletown boy was arrested in Doc Levinson Park in Middletown Village after dark with a loaded .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol and 10 prescription tablets not prescribed to him, police said. The teen, who lives in the 200 block of Oakwood Place but was reported as a runaway, was charged with possession of a deadly weapon by a person prohibited and four other offenses, said Police Chief Hank Tobin. He was committed to the New Castle County Youth Detention Center in lieu of $15,000 bail, Tobin said.
10 ARRESTED IN PROSTITUTION ROUNDUP: State and county police arrested 10 people — two men and eight women — on a variety of prostitution-related charges in the New Castle area. The roundup resulted in 11 charges, state police Sgt. Walter Newton said in a news release. One man was charged with patronizing a prostitute while others were charged with possessing drug paraphernalia, possessing a hypodermic needle, possessing marijuana, prostitution-related loitering and probation and parole absconding.

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… Twas just over a week ago that Letterman decided to take out his frustration at being second best (to Conan O’Brien) on the voluptuous young governor and her 14-year old daughter with remarks so sinister and inappropriate that even liberal feminists at NOW sided with the Republican governor and consigned Letterman to the Media Hall of Shame.
Avid Letterman devotees, mostly weak minded liberal women, continued to support the faltering host by claiming that the jokes were “funny” and that nobody gives a tinker’s damn about Sarah Palin anyhow,
OOPS! Not so fast.
As it turns out, Governor Sarah Palin is highly regarded and loved by tens of millions of fair minded, civil Americans. Those millions were peeved by Letterman’s pornographic insinuation that likened Palin’s young daughter Willow to a prostitute, one so desperate that she might even cavort with scumbag Eliot Spitzer, heir apparent to Bill Clinton’s legacy of perversion in high office.

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LIBERTY, Mo. (ABP) — Southern Baptist ministers in three states facing molestation charges had recent days in court.
Robert M. Black, 40, pastor of New Home Baptist Church near St. Joseph, Mo., pleaded not guilty June 18 to felony counts of first-degree statutory rape and attempted enticement of a child.
Black was arrested April 8 after allegedly soliciting sex over the Internet with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. He is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 14.
A grand jury in Waco, Texas, indicted William Frank Brown, 45, June 17 on four counts of sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child.
Brown, who resigned as pastor of First Baptist Church in Bellmead, a 125-member Southern Baptist congregation founded in 1945, just before the investigation became public, stands accused of molesting two children in incidents that began about four years ago in another state.

See the full article from “Associated Baptist Press”