The late Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend and lawyer Howard K. Stern and her psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich were found guilty today on charges of conspiring to provide drugs using false names, but not to providing drugs to a known addict, which was the crux of seven of the nine counts they faced and the conspiracy case's looming cultural issue. While People points out, "Now Howard K. Stern has another label: convicted felon," the jury decided that, in fact, Anna Nicole Smith's entourage did not knowingly enable her drug addiction in an effort to remain an Anna Nicole insider. According to the Post:

Looking deeper into the numbers today, the Times finds that President Obama's 2008 "coalition" — various demographic groups that voted for him — have abandoned the Democratic party this year. Women, independents, college grads, and Roman Catholics all went for the Democrats last year and have swung to the GOP this year. Then again, this probably shouldn't be entirely shocking. When the economy is in shambles and unemployment is high, everyone tends to be a little unhappy.

Meanwhile, in races around the country, Democratic senator Michael Bennett explains why he doesn't want Obama to campaign for him, Rand Paul is accused of "stomping on Kentucky," and Democratic congressman Heath Schuler might challenge Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.

Scene: The Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Awards. The Pierre Hotel. Night.

Characters: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Lloyd Blankfein, Intel Jessica, Dealbreaker Bess Levin, Assorted Nerds from the worlds of Media and Finance

Note: No alcohol was consumed during the following exchanges. The participants have nothing on which to blame their embarrassing behavior but themselves.

Intel Jessica enters the room, which is crowded with finance people, and begins looking for Dealbreaker Bess. The two have been told that Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs and the host for the evening, won't be doing any interviews, and as this is a room full of journalists, she expects him to be quarantined off somewhere, given Recent Events and whatnot. Then, suddenly, right in front of her, there he is: Lloyd, the light of their lives, if not the fire of their lloyns. She turns toward him, then away, then back again, like a lunatic.

Alex Kuczynski was stressed. She was trying to throw the perfect Upper East Side fête for her uncle, National Book Award winner John Casey, whose new novel Compass Rose hit stores this month, but despite the fact that she was impeccably put together in a little gray dress, the heat had just been turned on in her building, 740 Park Avenue, and combined with the unseasonably warm weather, the prewar duplex she shares with her husband (investor Charles Porter Stevenson Jr.) was boiling, and the couple does not have central air. "Central air is so ... gay," she told us. Oh? Was that an adjective she casually uses? "Ten years ago, I sort of thought it was important to bring back the term gay," she explained. Gay, like, happy? "No. Gay like happy?! I'm not, like, Oscar Wilde. Jesus! What am I, like, Hannah Arendt? No, I wanted to use gay in the colloquial language. Like, 'That is so fucking gay.' Like, that is so fucking, like ... gay! Gay-tard.You know? Like, all that stuff we said when I was 10."

"Money is like sex," Kelly Conway, a wispy blonde in a pearl necklace, told a crowd of middle-aged couples at the New York Yacht Club last week. "Women are uncomfortable talking about it. But we have to."

The audience tittered. They had assembled under the glaring portraits of old white men to hear the results of a study titled, "What Women Want: Understanding the Modern Female Investor." Conway, a part-time Fox News talking head whose polling company conducted the research along with money manager Catherine Avery, went on to discuss its less-than-shocking revelations: Most women don't know much about investing, they want safe investments, and they prefer to work with smaller money managers who understand their needs and "don't make them feel stupid."

Someone had a big problem with Brian Rafferty's passionate op-ed in last week's New York Post decrying the United Federation of Teachers union's refusal to give the public access to a list of teachers' names and their effectiveness rating — and that someone is Brian Rafferty. The parent of a Queens public school student says he got a call from an assistant to a Post reporter the night before asking to transcribe his comments for an op-ed, but what showed up with Rafferty's byline under the headline "Dad: Union putting my child last" wasn't what he said. "I might be skeptical of the union sometimes, no offense guys, but there is absolutely no way that these opinions are mine," the executive editor of the Queens Tribune told a roomful of parents and teachers at the Queens Community Education Council, where he's a member. The op-ed does reflect someone's perspective on the issue. After the city said it wasn't responding to newspapers' requests to release the information, the Post's editorial board openly criticized the union's president. A contributor to the GothamSchools website says a piece he wrote for the Post was also edited to reflect the paper's views. Sometimes the best way to get your point across is to put it in someone else's mouth.

Parent says NY Post fabricated his opinion of teacher ratings [GothamSchools]