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To paraphrase Arlo Guthrie, what if they held a Sex Scandal and nobody came? Or at least no liberals/progressives? Nobody chortling and rubbing their thighs, nobody justifying their hypocrisy because of the offender’s hypocrisy. Because it’s (almost always) none of our business.
I like this rule. Unless it’s pedophilia (one of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse) or affects national security, forget it, however salacious, however fun. In principle. Hard to believe, but people’s private lives should be private, and just because someone jimmied the door open doesn’t mean we now have a right to prop it open and make videos. Just because Rachel Maddow or Bill Maher is going on about it doesn’t mean it’s news or grownup. It doesn’t matter if they’re the Pope, a top Republican, a top Democrat, their spouse, in the military, in the KKK, a Priest, a TV host, whoever. Just say No to 7th grade. "It’s none of my business".
People have sex under all sorts of circumstances, some embarrassing, some nice, some a bit of both. Marriage vows are between 2 people, not between them and me. However they keep their marriage together is fine by me – they’ll work or yell it out, or divorce, their business.
Some gays have lots of problems coming out – not surprising some may have to lie or find themselves in unwanted circumstances thanks to societal pressures. If it doesn’t involve murder or embezzlement or sexual violence/harassment, I don’t care. Someone taps my foot in a bathroom stall at an airport, I now know not to tap back. Not that I would have before. So surprise, surprise – I don’t care. (Or maybe I do – my business, not yours).
Now, about our atrocities in Afghanistan, about our escalation in Afghanistan, about our coverup of torture…, about those Dick Cheney death squads that we still don’t know full deatail about, about naked short selling that brought down billion dollar corporations, about those trillion dollar TARP payouts and the Goldman Sachs swindle of billions, our making a mess of healthcare reform while other countries have universal care and pay half as much – yes, about these I do care.
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Sorry. I can’t agree. People’s sex lives become public when they make them public. When the publicity reveals them to be hypocrits, it makes them doubly ridiculous.
Human sexuality is pretty hilarious when we are forced to contemplate it objectively and dispassionately–without passion, it is just Rube-Goldberg plumbing crossed with contortionism. It rates a good-natured laugh. Hence its importance in comedy from ancient Greece to the present day.
Hypocrisy and greedy stupidity rate a sharper-edged laugh. Clinton chose to be married and claimed to be a seasoned politician, yet he let himself fall into a situation involving stained dresses and cigar jokes. He made himself ridiculous. People with fewer redeeming qualities than Clinton are funnier still. The politician who will forever more be That Wide-Stance Guy in the Airport Men’s Room (I can’t even remember his name) and “Don’t Cry for Me” Sanford brought tears to my eyes.
So, in the Clinton case, I don’t fault the ridcule. Far from it. What I faulted then and now is the disproportionate punishement. Laughing and pointing and jokes on late night TV are the proper punishment for public sexual misconduct. Impeachment was not.
I have to disagree, too. When someone goes well out of their way to help make it illegal for me to marry, then gets caught in the rest room soliciting gay sex, he deserves having his hypocrisy pointed out. When Gingrich is doing the nasty with some chick on his desk while pushing Clinton’s impeachment for a blowjob, he deserves having his hypocrisy pointed out.
It’s not really the sex acts…it’s the hypocrisy.
What is this “blowjob” you speak of? What is blowing? Why is it a “job?” So many jobs are disappearing, I think any kind of job is good! Is “blowjob” also possible as hobby? Or is it professional only, like appendectomy? For such a thing, only doctors can do the “job.” Is blowjob likewise? Or is answer, my friend, blowjobbing in the wind?
Well, liberals appear hypocritical when they’re all for privacy until it involves a Republican/conservative.
But we know people can rationalize anything.
So I guess I’ll have to support Jacob’s jobs program. Better to blowjob in the wind than to piss in the wind. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blow(job)s. [Though I think he misses the point that with a bit of blow, we can do a better job. Get cracking. Or freebasing. Or whatever your flavor.]