Florida mother explores the power of shame, and more

Florida mother explores the power of shame

A Florida woman is being investigated by child-protective services for making her son stand on a Tampa street corner for four hours with a sign around his neck that read: “Honk if I need an education.” Ronda Holder makes no apology for trying to shame her son James, 15, into improving his 1.22 grade-point average. “This is one child who won’t be lost to the streets,” said Holder.

Monica still pines for Bill

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Monica Lewinsky is still hung up on Bill Clinton, says The National Enquirer. The former White House intern, whose affair with the then president led to his impeachment, is now 37, but a friend says she never married because she still pines for Clinton. “Monica still hasn’t gotten over Bill and would take him back in a second,” said the friend. “She told me, ‘There will never be another man in my life that could make me as happy as he did.’”

For German politician, sex change leads to political change

A far-right German politician who underwent a sex change has returned to the political fray as a woman—and a socialist. Monika Strub, 35, formerly Horst Strub, now dismisses her years with Germany’s neo-Nazi National Democratic Party as a “youthful transgression,” and insists that she has “fundamentally changed” her outlook. Strub is now a member of the socialist Left party, and a party spokesman said this week that “there is absolutely no doubt as to her political bearing.”