I Read The News Today, Oh Boy

America is out-pacing all of Europe when it comes to scandals involving high flying personalities caught up in their personal sexual escapades.

Today's shocker is about the Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, aka the Caped Crusader, who wipes out crime wherever he goes. Seems he was helping some poor prostitute pay her light bill. Now, he's been added to a long list of prominent (and self-righteous) hypocrites who have ruined their reputations by letting the "little head" do their thinking for them.

Gov. Spitzer, meet Sen. Larry Craig (fudge packer), Rev. Ted Haggard ("cured" fudge packer), President Bill Clinton (connoisseur of chubby interns), Rep. Mark Foley (boy, that's tight), Rev. Jimmy Swaggart (handyman), and a host of others too numerous to list.

You would think that those who have finally achieved the powerful positions they sought for so long would be more careful to protect their worlds from crumbling in disgrace. Alas, they remain as susceptible to age old temptations as the rest of us.

Were it not for the envy of their enemies, their indiscretions would merit little more than a casual chuckle. Instead, they are pilloried in the newspapers, on TV, and throughout the internet for succumbing to a natural (though often inconvenient) human urge.

It's all a bit overblown when you stop and think about it, but people in high places are prime targets for rivals who will loudly trumpet any hints of a scandal.

And though the holes were rather small,
They had to count them all.