Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Even birds and bees do it...

...let's do it, let's have an extramarital affair.

After all the hue and cry about Spitzer, apparently recently appointed Gov. David Patterson has also cheated on his wife (as has his wife on him). If the blind governor is also guilty of infidelity is that indicative of a larger trend? Or rather, is there anyone in this country who remains faithful?

It is hard to know if this has gotten better or worse over time so I am not going to yearn for the days of yore. My mystification is how people are so indignant about these things while the phenomenon seems so much more pervasive than anyone will admit. I guess it is better than the alternative.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

what is better than what alternative?
miriam

Zev said...

The alternative is people being unashamed to admit infidelity. At least if it is a secret we can pretend that affairs are a bad thing.

Yehuda said...

Birds and bees do not marry and certainly don't have extra-marital affairs.

Zev said...

Ella thought they did.

Yehuda said...

Who's Ella?