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Your Won't Keep
Those Resolutions:
Try These Instead

NEW YEAR'S

Dec 31, 2009 11:00 AM CST

Your Won't Keep Those Resolutions: Try These Instead

Don't quit smoking, start e-smoking, and other easy outs

(Newser) - Gawker knows you can’t keep those virtuous New Year’s resolutions, so it’s come up with some substitutions. They won’t make you “a better person,” but are at least achievable. Herewith, from Brian Boylan:

Lose weight: That's too hard; "we live in a

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Karl Rove, Wife Divorce

BACK ON THE MARKET

Dec 29, 2009 1:41 PM CST

Karl Rove, Wife Divorce

Pair split after 24 years together

(Newser) - Karl Rove and his wife, Darby, are officially parting ways, reports Politico : the couple “were granted a divorce last week” in Texas, said spokeswoman Dana Perino. Married since 1986, they “came to the decision mutually and amicably, and they maintain a close relationship and a strong friendship,”...

Army Wives
Get Their
Own Training:
Burlesque

Dec 29, 2009 10:40 AM CST

Army Wives Get Their Own Training: Burlesque

'Operation Bombshell' good for lonely women and returning men

(Newser) - Operation Bombshell is not taking place in some far-off locale, but right here at home, and it’s our troops who are on the receiving end of some pretty heavy firepower: their wives’ burlesque talents. As a friendly neighborhood service, a dancer-turned-Army-wife is schooling her compatriots in some tricks intended...

Porn Star
Tera Patrick
Not Into Sex: Ex

CAREER MISMATCHES

Dec 22, 2009 8:56 AM CST

Porn Star Tera Patrick Not Into Sex: Ex

She says they broke up because he picked porn over her

(Newser) - Sounds like someone's in the wrong business: Tera Patrick, half of the now-separated "first couple of porn," is "not a sexual person," ex Evan Seinfeld says, telling the New York Post , "We barely had sex in our own marriage." Seinfeld's comments came after Patrick...

Indonesia
'Polygamy Club'
Boosts Influence

Dec 17, 2009 2:56 AM CST

Indonesia 'Polygamy Club' Boosts Influence

Women's groups seek to have club shut down

(Newser) - A controversial club preaching the benefits of men taking multiple wives is growing fast in Indonesia. Polygamy is legal but tightly controlled in the Muslim nation. Now the "Global Ikhlwan" club aims to make it more mainstream. Members, both male and female, hail the benefits of polygamy and say...

DC Legalizes Gay Marriage

Dec 15, 2009 2:21 PM CST

DC Legalizes Gay Marriage

Bill passes 11-2, could be struck down by Congress

(Newser) - The Washington, DC, City Council voted today to legalize gay marriage in the nation's capital, handing supporters a victory after recent defeats in Maine, New York, and New Jersey. Mayor Adrian Fenty has promised to sign the bill, which passed 11-2, and gay couples could begin marrying as early as...

NY Senator
Diane Savino
Wins Over
Internet

gay marriage debate

Dec 3, 2009 2:34 PM CST

NY Senator Diane Savino Wins Over Internet

She may be on gay marriage's losing side, but she's a viral video sensation

(Newser) - The New York state senate voted down gay marriage yesterday, but the debate created a big winner on the losing side: viral video darling Diane Savino, who's taking the blogosphere by storm. "Savino for President 2016!" Lindsay Robertson writes for Jezebel . In just over 7 minutes, the Staten...

Chelsea Clinton: I'm Engaged

YOUNG DEMS IN LOVE

Nov 30, 2009 10:49 AM CST

Chelsea Clinton: I'm Engaged

Reports that couple was already married were untrue

(Newser) - Reports that Chelsea Clinton married beau Marc Mezvinsky last summer were false, but now they’re engaged for real, the two revealed in a mass email on Friday. A spokesman for Bill Clinton confirmed that this time Chelsea, 29, really is tying the knot with Mezvinsky, son of former House...

Military Divorce Rate
Climbs Again

the war at home

Nov 27, 2009 3:45 PM CST

Military Divorce Rate Climbs Again

Stress of war, deployments takes toll at home

(Newser) - The divorce rate in the armed forces increased slightly again in the past year as military marriages continued to bear the stress of the nation's ninth year at war. In the 2009 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, there were an estimated 27,312 divorces among the nearly 765,000...

Clintons Strive to Avoid Conflict of Interest Claims

Nov 26, 2009 9:20 AM CST

Clintons Strive to Avoid Conflict of Interest Claims

Pair lead separate lives focusing on same issues

(Newser) - Bill and Hillary Clinton live largely separate professional lives but still end up dealing with many of the same leaders and issues. The secretary of state, keen to avoid any accusations, downplays her husband's influence, but Team Clinton sometimes still works together. The couple's combined energies have paid off on...

Japanese Man Marries
Video Game Girlfriend

Nov 25, 2009 1:33 PM CST

Japanese Man Marries Video Game Girlfriend

But the wedding's probably not legally binding

(Newser) - A Japanese man pledged his undying love to a video game character last weekend, in a first-of-its-kind ceremony witnessed by dozens of gamers. The man, username Sal9000, had fallen in love with Nene Anegasaki, a virtual woman in the Nintendo DS dating simulator “Love Plus.” He “married”...

Texas Accidentally Bans Straight Marriage

Nov 19, 2009 7:28 AM CST

Texas Accidentally Bans Straight Marriage

Law designed to forbid gay civil unions actually bars any unions

(Newser) - The geniuses who wrote Texas’ gay marriage ban may have accidentally banned all marriage in the state, according to one Houston lawyer. Subsection B of the ban, a constitutional amendment ratified in 2005, states, “This state…may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage....

Buenos Aires Grants First
Gay Marriage License

Nov 17, 2009 9:17 AM CST

Buenos Aires Grants First Gay Marriage License

Lawmakers consider officially legalizing it after court strikes down ban

(Newser) - Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina's capital yesterday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage. Jose Maria Di Bello and partner Alex Freyre won the right to get married when a judge ruled last week that a ban on gay marriage violates...

Drew Peterson Wants to Sell His Home—to the Media

Nov 11, 2009 3:56 PM CST

Drew Peterson Wants to Sell His Home—to the Media

He's got a novel idea for those pesky legal fees

(Newser) - Drew Peterson is broke and has huge legal bills, so he’s looking to sell his home. But not to just anyone. The former police sergeant, accused of murdering his third wife, figures he’ll get a premium if he sells it to a news organization as a “base...

Paris Divorce Fair
Thrives on
Breakups

Nov 9, 2009 4:26 PM CST

Paris Divorce Fair Thrives on Breakups

Get legal advice and plastic surgery for life's next phase

(Newser) - The annual Paris Marriage Fair has spawned a modern offspring—a Divorce Fair. “Divorce has lost its stigma,” says its organizer; nearly 50% of French marriages, including two of Nicolas Sarkozy's, don't last. Booths at the fair offered services from divorce lawyers, tarot card readers, self-esteem coaches, and...

Most of
Manhattan
Is Single

life imitates art

Oct 30, 2009 1:38 PM CDT

Most of Manhattan Is Single

Census shows 50.3% live alone

(Newser) - Depending on your point of view, New York is either a very lonely city or a great place to get laid. The number of singles in the Big Apple, already at a historic high, keeps rising, according to new Census data. In Manhattan, a whopping 50.3% of people live...

Somali Man, 112,
Marries Teen Bride

Oct 30, 2009 3:58 AM CDT

Somali Man, 112, Marries Teen Bride

Father of 80-year-old says he wants more kids with wife

(Newser) - A 95-year age gap is no barrier to love, according to a 112-year-old Somali man who married a 17-year-old bride this week. Ahmed Muhamed Dhore—who told the BBC he still has his 1897 birth certificate written on goat skin—says he realized a dream by marrying his sixth wife....

Barack and Michelle:
The First Romantics

Oct 29, 2009 9:03 AM CDT

Barack and Michelle: The First Romantics

Pair redefine president-first lady relationship

(Newser) - Like no other couple before them, Barack and Michelle Obama have made their romance a central feature of his presidency—even his inauguration night seemed like a wedding, the new first lady dressed in white, the couple dancing to a love song. Their marriage is the subject of a 7,...

Younger, Smarter Wife = Bliss

Oct 27, 2009 4:24 AM CDT

Younger, Smarter Wife = Bliss

(Newser) - Researchers have discovered the secret of a happy marriage—at least for the husband: a younger, smarter wife. Such marriages are likely to last, particularly when neither spouse has been previously divorced. Marriages involving women at least five years younger than a husband and with a higher educational level fared...

Couples Who
Share Chores
Have More Sex

DUSTING=Intimacy?

Oct 21, 2009 1:42 PM CDT

Couples Who Share Chores Have More Sex

Housework amps up your spouse, but why?

(Newser) - More housework equals more sex, a new study shows, though watchers are split on why that is. Two answers quickly spring up: For one, active folks tend to pour their energy into all pursuits. “This group of go-getters seem to make sex a priority,” a researchers tells the...