In the age of designer drugs and Twitter and cell phone pictures of celebrities grinding with each other to music composed almost entirely of beeps, there's something classy about an old-school Hollywood scandal. Even Lindsay Lohan's sordid exploits can't match those of Elizabeth Taylor, whom Lohan depicts in the…

Our beloved constant companion Rick Santorum took to ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos this morning to expound offensively a number of topics, but perhaps his most shining moment was when he took very relevant political force John F. Kennedy to task for his 1960 remarks on the separation of church and state.…

The New York Post, one of the most respected names in lurid journalism, has obtained a copy of a new "tell-all" memoir by Mimi Alford, a woman who claims to have had a pretty skeezy affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old summer intern at the White House. A faithful Post scribe has copied and…

Somebody emailed TMZ to point out that the picture of John F. Kennedy sunning himself while two naked ladies leap into the water may actually be from a Playboy photo shoot.

TMZ has unearthed a photograph which supposedly shows JFK living large on a boat with several naked women. According to experts, it was most likely taken during Kennedy's Mediterranean vacation in August, 1956, not long before the election. [TMZ]

Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon theorizes that Mad Men's John Deere disaster was a foreshadowing of JFK's assassination, which makes the pink dress on the secretary above all the more evocative. Marcotte's convincing argument, here. The scene in question? Here. [Pandagon]

All happened in 1963, which seems to be the year the next season of Mad Men will take place. Newsweek's Louisa Thomas asks: "Will the turmoil of 1963 provide a release [for the characters], or just inflict more trauma? [Newsweek]

As you may know, though Life magazine is no more, the Life magazine photo archive lives on, through a partnership with Google, and is slowly being made available online. Looking through the collection is unbelievably engrossing, but the funny thing is you never really find exactly what you think you're going to find.…

"The '60's, for those of us who can remember it — I mean, it was such a defining year. I made a list of some of the things that were going on then for the young people: The Vietnam War protests, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King's murder, Civil Rights movement, women's liberation — so much happened..."…