Today In The USA

According to the New York Post, CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien has a major thing against a big, lovable, good-natured 150-pound mastiff named Ugo.

So much of a “thing” against the dog that she appears to be leading a charge to evict not only the dog, but also the dogs family, Steve Lyons, an immigration lawyer who lives with his wife and their three kids in a loft three floors above O’Brien on West 26th Street.

According to the New York Post report:

Lyons said neighbors had welcomed him to the building after he purchased his $3 million, 4,000-square-foot, eighth-floor apartment in 2003.

But that changed in March 2007 when he got the Neapolitan Mastiff, bred from an award-winning bloodline, in Turin, Italy. By that summer, a newly elected board had begun complaining, despite a co-op agreement allowing pets and the fact that several residents own cats.

Reportedly, O’Brien, in a 20-page affidavit, complained about the dog’s “size, slobbering, shedding, drooling, gassiness and odors.”

Apparently none of the tenants have complained of O’Brien’s “size, slobbering, shedding, drooling, gassiness and odors.”, but what good would that do when O’Brien holds the lofty position of secretary of her co-op board?

Soledad O’Brien really ought to re-think her position in this foolishness.

If there’s one thing that Americans will not tolerate it is people picking on big, lovable, slobbering dogs.

Those that fail to realize this basic truth are destined to poor ratings along with the scorn of dog lovers everywhere.

And rightfully so…

Just about everyone involved in the Miley Cyrus photo spread for Vanity Fair magazine is ducking for cover and trying to find a way to gracefully back out of the shit-storm that may doom the “good girl” image of the Disney star.

Whoever had the idea that an “artistic” photo spread of a 15-year-old “good girl” star was a good idea is an idiot.

And where the hell were Miley’s mom and pop while their little darling was posing?

Why, right there of course.

Dad was even trying to look “hot” himself in a couple of poses with Miley.

Gimme a break…

Read it at Should ‘Hannah Montana’ Be Sexy? and wonder if little Miley is doing some kind of “Britney Spears breakdown”…

There just seems to be no end to the horror story that is New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Now reports indicate that Spitzer may have been frequenting hookers since 2002 and that his hooker expense may have ran as high as $80,000.

That’s a lotta’ ho’s…

Read it at Spitzer Faces Impeachment Threat as Reports Surface of Costly, Chronic Sex Arrangements and be surprised that anyone that looks like Eliot Spitzer could even be THAT horny.

On a side note…

At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.

Read it at CDC: At Least 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has Sexually Transmitted Disease and be shocked…