How much time will we spend on Spitzer this week and following? The vitriol connected with his fall is large (even his sections of the complaint are the most detailed, including some that look gratuitous to me ...).
Why? Because he dared to say that white collar crime makes people no different than "common" criminals? That setting up systems to rip people off is wrongful ... not just "not good business"? Meanwhile, his "hypocrisy" is supposed to attach to his 'moral statements' about prostitution while he was a prosecutor. Well, from the one's I've heard dug up so far, he's talked mostly about the people running the rings ...
Meanwhile, Dan Savage notes that only fools rush in, in coving the eight month relationship of former Baywatch star,
On days like these, ... you realize that politics, conceived as possibly an ennobling activity of mankind, is just a frothy conceit on top of a much larger wave.
