The Democratic National Convention had the indecency to use footage of Ted Kennedy to attack Mitt Romney. Are your pearls firmly clutched?

Turns out Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who jumped the aisle to become a Democrat in 2009, is a sensual man. "Arlen Specter's Memoir: The Five Steamiest Passages" is the headline of an Amanda Terkel Huffington Post article that really delivers. Excerpts:

Eleanor Mondale, daughter of Vice President Walter Mondale, died on Saturday, six years after being diagnosed with brain cancer; on Friday, Kara Kennedy, daughter of Senator Ted Kennedy, apparently suffered a heart attack and passed away. Both women were 51.

The conservative transparency advocates at Judicial Watch have obtained some new documents from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's massive, heavily-redacted FBI file. One interesting bit: During a trip to South America in 1961, then-Assistant District Attorney Kennedy had a party at a brothel: "while Kennedy was in Santiago…

Ngozi Pole, ex-Sen. Ted Kennedy's office manager for four years, was convicted yesterday of stealing more than $75,000 from the staff budget through secret "bonuses" he gave himself. Good. Now that that's cleared up, Washington is 100% theft-free again.

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown's surprising January special election victory made him an instant Tea Party hero and threatened the survival of health care reform. But it passed anyway, and then Brown voted for every other Democratic bill. Will he survive?

Here's a gem from the late Ted Kennedy's FBI file: A memo about a New York City socialite's claim of "considerable information about sex parties" including three Kennedy brothers, Frank Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe.

After trading barbs with Scott Brown—the Republican who won his father's Senate seat in what must have felt like a hit-and-run accident to Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy—Patick released a video late Thursday saying he won't seek reelection.

Scott Brown, Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts, has conservatives in absolute rapture. The phrase "white Obama" has been introduced. Hell, if he wins today, Brown just might be the GOP candidate for President in 2012.

Ayla Brown father and former naked person Scott Brown will be your next Senator from the Great State of Massachusetts, assuming hell freezes over!

Sad! Mike Dukakis will not be the interim Senator from Massachusetts. Instead it will probably be announced tomorrow that a 71-year-old dude named Paul Kirk will keep Ted Kennedy's seat warm (for the naked dude).

Who will the Republicans choose to run for Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts? Probably an ex-porn model named Scott Brown. Here he is, naked, posing for Cosmo in 1982, when male body hair was still cool, thanks to Burt Reynolds.

There may be no new Kennedy Idol after all! Joseph Kennedy II, RFK's son, said he won't run for his late Uncle Ted's Senate seat, which means Massachusetts will not have a Kennedy lawmaker for the first time since 1946.

Senator Ted Kennedy's posthumous memoir, True Compass, doesn't come out until September 14th, but it's already number two on Amazon's comprehensive book list. And, not surprisingly, it's number one in the memoir and political categories. It better be good! [Amazon]

Sigh, Mike Dukakis. Sigh. The Boston Globe has joined the chorus of Democrats demanding that the Duke be appointed to Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.

The Kennedy clan reclaimed its place as the nation's premier royal family this week, thanks to Ted Kennedy's death and grand style funeral. But, like all royal crews, there's a rebel lurking within the massive family.

Ted Kennedy's funeral is underway, and so is the full court press barrage of media. Obama's delivering his remarks now. What do attendees, Twitter, Free Republic, and others have to say?

An odd line in the Times obit of Dominick Dunne seems to suggest that the late writer's family wanted to delay the announcement of his death in order to make sure it wasn't overshadowed.