Skipped Days and Horny Presidents (4/3/98)
Regular readers of TMC NewsBreak may have noticed me skip both Tuesday and Thursday this week. Both of you have asked, "But Bryan! With everything that's going on regarding the Clinton sex scandal, why skip a day when you can make fun of that?"I'll tell ya why. It's a non-issue. And you want to know why it's a non-issue? Not because of issues of "privacy", or consensuality, or whatever. And not because I'm an ultraliberal (I am) and making excuses for Clinton. But because he's the President. And as the President, he is able to get away with damn near anything.
I'm not saying he should be able to, I'm not saying things aren't screwed up, but when we live in a world where Nixon can become a respected statesman, and where Reagan and Bush can get out of Iran-Contra by waiting until everyone's bored then pleading to "put all this behind us", it's a bit tough to believe anything will actually come out of the Clinton investigation.
So, if nothing's going to come out of it, it seems like just a bit of a waste to spend millions of dollars on finding out that American politicians lie, steal, abuse their power, and cheat on their wives. Really? Wow. What a shocker.
Poor Jon Katz over at Wired. The idealistic little schlub actually believes that our apathy regarding the sex scandal means we're rejecting insider politics and the invasion of privacy. Nobody ever gives credit where credit is due: to the combined forces of moron behavior and herd instinct. Wins every time.
Damn, I'm dark this week.
