Governor's Gone Wild

These days it's hard to tell the political coverage from the entertainment news. The new NY governor, David Patterson, admits to a marital affair in his past only a day after taking office. Makes you long for the days when the press would hide this stuff from us. Or wish there was at least one way we were more like the French. Their president divorced his wife and married an Italian supermodel who says she's not into monogamy. And nobody bats an eye. Seems at little more mature, or at least realistic. Personally I like the French. I think they get a lot right that we get wrong. Bill Clinton would never have been impeached by the French. And George Bush would have never been elected in France.

One Last Word On Spitzer: Make Your Walk of Shame Alone

I should say last word today, because it's obviously not the last word on this scandal. Maybe it should be, at least here, which is all I have control over. But one thing I wanted to mention in the last post, one of the first things that struck me when watching the video of Spitzer as he acknowledged the scandal, and as he resigned, is why on earth do these guys who screw up this way have to drag their poor wives on stage with them? It's merely a show. It's to say, don't be so hard on me. Hey, even my wife who has more reason to be hurt than anyone, is still beside me.

The worst part of what these guys do is what they've done to their families, especially their wives. I don't think it's such a crime, or any reason for most of them to step down politically. But it might be a real good reason for a divorce. And these knuckleheads ought to have to stand before the public on their own and not drag their wives along on their walk of shame. Let the press and the public guess how she feels about him. No matter what it looks like on stage, most of us know what this woman would really like to do to this guy, and what she is probably doing when they aren't in the public eye.