Gimme Them Good Ol' Family Values

I can't decide which is more absurd, the rules themselves, or the way the guys who make the rules break them with such self-assumed impunity. Nature or God or whatever created human sexuality, and all the endless variations meant to keep it interesting precisely so that people would do it and therefore assure the continuation of the species. Somewhere along the line the same people with the same urges as everyone else decided that doing all that stuff was sinful. It would be forbidden, they decreed, and then went right on doing it themselves. It's nothing short of bizarre. So now we have an undersecretary of defense resigning his post because his name showed up on a Washington madam's client list, and one of his jobs was combatting prostitution in third world countries. It gets stranger. He claims that he never actually had sex with these women, just extraordinarily high priced massages. I guess in Washington they don't know you can get legitimate massages much cheaper. Maybe it's their version of flying first class. But it gets stranger still. The madam is insisting that she provides a good clean service, nothing more than a little harmless fantasy. Who do they all think they're kidding? Lyndon Johnson once said that there's no greater crime in a democracy that willful disregard of law. How about the willful disregard of stupid laws by the men who make and prosecute them? Or as someone once said about Spiro Agnew, he's the kind of guy who'd bust you for marijuana and then smoke your stash.