Merry Holidays to anyone who blogs!

So it’s a Monday afternoon and I’m on my way home from work and I’m wondering what to write about for the blog this week. I walk into the door and my wife says to me “Did you hear about Eliot Spitzer and the prostitute?”
JACKPOT BABY! For every blogger, comedy writer, radio show host, talk show host, this is every holiday rolled up into one. Since this blog is about me, here are my three main thoughts about this.
Since I live in New Jersey, I’m just happy that this scandal did not involve out governor for a change. Jon Corzine chalks up one controversial subject a month (click here) Christie Whitman had her share (click here) Richard Codey was a good guy caught but got caught up in a spat (click here) and of course there is the ongoing saga of Jim McGreevey (wikipedia, not wikipedia) and his wife Dina Matos (most recent divorce update). It’s really unfortunate given the great people I have met here in New Jersey, that as a state we don’t always elect the best candidates. This time the residents of some other state get to take the verbal beating. Until this news item came out.
I work in the insurance industry, one of the many that Eliot Spitzer took aim at when he was Attorney General. I’ll admit, I’m feeling a little schadenfreude right now. Maybe he felt above the law, maybe he thought he wouldn’t get caught, maybe he rationalized that this behavior was okay. When you are in the spotlight for any reason, there are people who want to sour the spotlight. Reality stars will have naked pictures posted on the web. Actors will have addiction problems, politicians will have sexual escapades. There are a lot of people who smiled when they heard this news. The biggest parties are on Wall Street.
I am really starting to wonder about the female role models this world is developing. Mrs. Spitzer, Mrs. McGreevy, heck even Hillary Clinton, are standing behind their husbandsduring the time of crisis. Where are the women who should be smacking their husbands in the back of the head and saying “Take off you hoser”. It’s okay to forgive the act, but can you forgive being stupid? When is a woman going to stand up and demand some r-e-s-p-e-c-t? Are we going to be left with the woman from The Moment of Truth? Yikes!
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