Political Hanky-Panky

digby comments on sex and politicians in New York and calls it 'ridiculous'. My oh my oh my.

Sex in High Places Sweeps Other News Off the Front Page

Are we surprised? No. Are we shocked? No. Are we learning anything new? Well, as a matter of fact, yes. 10k/night. Wow. But that's just hearsay. Are we appreciative of the break from the usual news stories? Be honest now. Okay, gotta admit that I for one am. Hillary and Barack and John (and what ever happened to George?) have been getting all the headlines recently. Time for a change. Sorry it had to be you, Elliott.

Here's Matt Cooper's early take on the affair (but it really isn't an affair as that would be something that is on going whereas this call girl thing is a horse of a different color, isn't it?). Matt Cooper - you remember he was part of the Valarie Plame affair as a reporter for the NY Times who was questioned before the grand jury - leads off with this:

Spitzer: Why is Prostitution Illegal Anyway?

Hmmm. Short article with a few comments. And it remains a good question that various groups/countries/governments have answered in different ways.

And then there is this headline from TIME:

More Sex Please, We're French

But wait, lookee here at one of the article's statistics:

20% of French men aged 18-24 years say they have no interest in sexual or romantic activity whatever.

Now that is hard to believe. I've heard some 50+ golfers say that they would rather play golf than have sex but never that they had no interest in it.

Interesting stuff and really a nice break from the usual. But now back to the more mundane.