The Week in Viral Videos
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From Sesame Street's Fox News slam to a Philippines prison's Queen jam, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
An Ordinary, Extraordinary Life
Barbara Kantrowitz is a contributing editor at Newsweek and co-author of The Menopause Book (Workman Publishing, 2009).
The son of Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn writes candidly about his learning disabilities, losing his virginity in a brothel-and the loneliness of being different.
Uh, Mom, About That Prostitute…
Quinn Bradlee was born with Velo-Cardio-Facial syndrome (VCFS), the second-most-prevalent genetic syndrome in the world behind Down syndrome. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker and launched www.FriendsOfQuinn.com, to create an online community and resource for young adults with LD and their families. He is the son of Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, and Sally Quinn, journalist and best-selling author.
In an excerpt from A Different Life, his new memoir about growing up with disabilities, Quinn Bradlee, the son of Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, visited a brothel to lose his virginity. Then he went to his mother and made the world's oldest confession.
Why I'm Selling My Virginity
Natalie Dylan has a B.A. in Women's Studies. She is from San Diego. "Natalie Dylan" is a pseudonym.
They say you should value having sex for the first time. That's why I'm auctioning my virginity online-and the bidding is up to $3.8 million.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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