Here’s a news story for the “timeless” file, the sort of hardboiled investigative reporting on an overlooked corner of government that the press doesn’t do enough of: “Following the money swirling around [Bush donor Raymond] Ruddy,” writes Michael Reynolds in The Nation, offers an eye-opening glimpse into the squalor at the heart of the abstinence-only project. One top Bush adviser left to take a job at Ruddy’s charity, Gerard Health Foundation, and a senior officer at Ruddy’s for-profit company, Maximus, left to take a top-level position at the Department of Health and Human Services. Leaders of Christian-right organizations that are Gerard grantees have gained advisory HHS positions–and their organizations have in turn received AIDS and abstinence grants to the tune of at least $25 million. Maximus itself has raked in more than $100 million in federal contracts during the Bush era.” And that’s just the opener. Read more of “The Abstinence Gluttons” to find out about the sleazy side of the no-sex industry.