SOCIAL NEWS – AT 5:33 P.M. ET:  Just to make sure that your social calendars are up to date, we present the following items. 

From the New York Post: 

Disgraced former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has reportedly proposed to his baby mama -- and plans to buy a posh, $3.5 million beachfront home where they can live together.

Edwards popped the question last month at the same time he told his ex-mistress Rielle Hunter that he had issued a statement confirming that he indeed fathered her 2-year-old daughter Frances Quinn, The National Enquirer reported today.

Hunter said "yes" when Edwards asked her to be his bride, the newspaper reported.

An Edwards spokesman denied the report.

We'll go with the National Enquirer on this.  They've been right on everything Edwards.  You might wish to start thinking about gifts.  Small, token things, like a yacht.

Also from the New York Post:

AN Arab ambassador has annulled his marriage after discovering his veiled wife-to-be had a beard and was cross-eyed.

The diplomat had only met the woman a few times, during which she had hidden her face behind a niqab.

Local media reported that after the marriage contract was signed, the man tried to give his new wife a smooch only to find she had facial hair.

The ambassador told an Islamic Sharia court in the United Arab Emirates that he was tricked into the marriage, as the woman's mother had shown his own mum pictures of her sister instead of her, the report said.

You mean, he didn't even get a little looky-loo before the marriage?  Why, bless these old-fashioned girls.

Now watch, this guy will soon be running his country's intelligence service, and Janet Napolitano will be depending on his information.  Dig your shelter now.

And from London's Daily Mail:

The internationally celebrated historian and TV presenter Niall Ferguson has broken up with his wife of 16 years after a string of adulterous affairs.

The 45-year-old Harvard professor has left former newspaper editor Susan Douglas, with whom he has three children, for his mistress, the Somalian-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Ms Hirsi Ali, 40, is a lawyer and former Dutch MP who wrote the script for a controversial film that criticised Islam and resulted in the assassination of its director. She is currently living under police protection in America.

Oh my, oh my.  This presents Harvard with a major crisis.  Hirsi Ali is a great feminist, but the feminist movement doesn't accept her because, although she is "of color," she doesn't follow the script.  She's taken on radical Islam and never caught Bush Derangement Syndrome. 

They must be meeting at Harvard to decide what to do with her when Niall brings her home.  If there's a left-wing etiquette columnist, she will undoubtedly be consulted.

There is the latest social news.  Now you can go to any party and talk.

February 10, 2010