Porn and romance novels on taxpayer's dime? Inspector general urges IRS to boost oversight of credit card spending The IRS could do a better job of policing employees' spending with government credit cards, a Treasury Department watchdog said Tuesday in a report that found that lax oversight allowed a few bad apples to buy romance novels, diet pills and even porn on the taxpayer's dime.The Treasury's inspector general for tax administration — the same agency that brought the hammer down on the IRS for ...
June 26, 2013 - NBC NEWS
Family Dysfunction: Petunia Epitomizes the American Dream Gone Sour Christine Lahti and Tobias Segal. At the movies, dysfunctional families are a dime a dozen, but in the episodic, fitfully amusing comedy Petunia , you get the most offbeat family of wackos since The Hotel New Hampshire. The Petunias are a family of New York neurotics who epitomize the American Dream gone sour. The film is too pokily paced and annoyingly episodic to hold interest for a sustained ...
June 25, 2013 - The New York Observer