jss | January 17, 2009
My girlfriend and I were at a swingers’ “Meet and Greet” party at a bar in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, on Saturday night. The cover charge was $25 per couple, enough to keep the sports bar’s regular clientele at bay for the evening, and perhaps a hundred couples showed up – a typical crowd for this sort of thing in north central Connecticut. I asked around. If they hadn’t watched “Swingtown,” they’d sure enough heard of it and were going to tune in …
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jss | December 31, 2008
We could try to do this in song, in Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start the Fire” style:
Carla Bruni, Sarkozy
settle for monogamy
Spitzer with his pants down
Call girl finds some brief renown
John Edwards is a lure
National Enquirer
Elizabeth, blown away, stays married to him anyway … what else do we have to say?
Etcetera. But this is a First [...]
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