NY governor linked to prostitution ring

The Times reported that a person with knowledge of the governor's role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers.

We always hear that good people don't run for office because of the "gotcha" politics practiced inside the fishbowl of public life. Who, the question is posed, would lead the people when every act since 3rd grade will be exhumed from the schmuggy past and have it's bones scraped for political gain?

It's a legitimate question that I don't have the answer to.

The effects of our defective society - one that finds entertainment in parsing every vowel movement of every two-bit county judge and dead-headed celebrity for usable kernals of feed for the chicken masses - is on the quality of the leadership in every sector of life.

There's a reason little girls still worship Britney Spears even while she sits in a soft room blowing saliva bubbles. There's a reason more people can quote the shitty pith of Rush Limbaugh or Michael Moore than even know this moment who Kurt Vonnegut and Bill Buckley were.

And so on.

Then there are assholes like Spitzer.

Beware of the crusaders. From the anti-gayers to the anti-smokers to anti-purple mohawks in schoolers, the Holy Rolling Flatulatti just have something wrong with them.