Daily Dose

Louis Vuitton Artful Petting Zoo | Nikolaj Hübbe | Sophia Loren Interview

Billie Achilleos is an enormosly talented UK puppet maker with an eye for manufacturing fantasy sets. She is a lucky artist now retained by Louis Vuitton to make accessory zoo magic of LV products designed to inspire our imaginations and elicit smiles from the most proper luxury customers.

Marc Jacobs has always brought a note of whimsy to the Louis vuitton brand. Their new ‘mon monagram’ personalized service wherein one can get their monogrammed goods personalized with initials and colored stripes is traveling the world, making new friends for the brand wherever it lands.

Boys Club

How Stupid Can He Be!

Rep Weiner Admits Lying, Sending Lewd Photo, Inappropriate Conversations NPR

New York Congressman Anthony Weiner has admitted having “inappropriate conversations” over social media and on the phone with “six women over the last three years.”

The congressman insists that he’s not going to resign from office. Weiner’s problems have been escalating after activist Andrew Breitbart released another photo today and explosive allegations against the Congressman appeared on Radaronline.

The woman quoted by Radaronline claims she has 200 sexually explicit messages from Weiner from a Facebook account the Democratic politician no longer uses. The new woman is middle-aged and from Nevada.

RadarOnline.com and Star magazine verified that the account where the messages originated does belong to Weiner (see below).

He told the woman he had a “ridiculous bulge” in his shorts and asked if she “wanna see” it — almost three months before a photo of an erect penis in tight fitting briefs appeared in the pol’s Twitter stream.

The lack of judgment, total lack of self control and inflated male ego exhibited by Congressman Weiner is jaw-dropping. How in the world did he believe he wouldn’t eventually get busted? Call us stupified! Anne

Sexual Politics

He Said | She Said

The Strauss-Kahn Case: Sizing Up a Legal Clash’s Many Facets NYTimes

The former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn left Manhattan Criminal Court with his wife Anne Sinclair after pleading not guilty to sexual assault on Monday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn left Manhattan Criminal Court court with his wife Anne Sinclair today, after pleading not guilty to charges of sexual assault.

The NYTimes writes an in-depth, informative overview of the case from the standoint of DSK and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. I learned a lot about plea deals and why they will or won’t work in this case.

Maids from a New York housekeeping union protested outside the Criminal Courts Building in New York where the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was scheduled to appear on Monday.Eric Feferberg/Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesAnother very important piece of information. If the maid wants to file a civil suit against DSK, she must do it within a year. Legal experts believe that it will take more than a year to bring the case to trial. If the maid files a civil suit — which would not be unusual in this situation and especially if she really was assaulted — that puts her in the position of having to testify that she has a financial interest in a guilty verdict.

Apparently, if the alleged victim waits for the criminal case to conclude, she can’t file a civil case. If she does file the civil case in advance of the criminal trial, the prosecution will make every effort to portray her as a money-hungry maid out to cash in on the millions of DSK’s wife Anne Sinclair.

RedTracker Health

Study Finds Drug Offers Option in Preventing Breast Cancer NYTimes

The risk reduction of breast cancer among 4,560 post-menopausal women taking exemestane to prevent breast cancer among higher-risk women was 65 percent.

While not as problematic as tamoxifin side effects of blot clots, exemestand does have side effects of joint and bone pain.