As for those rock and roll singers and their lascivious behavior, I suppose it’s all relative. That said, I recently saw a pic of Mick Jagger from the 60s, I can’t believe how good looking he was back then!

I think your elders weren’t misguided about Mozart (I have to defend my idol here); sure he had his bawdy moments, but there’s little to suggest he was ever unfaithful in his marriage. Your point nonetheless well taken.

I have to add that while I’m no Reagan fan at least in terms of policy, I have a lot of admiration for him. And I’ve been reading his Diaries- talk about a guy devoted to his wife. He gets so depressed when Nancy’s not around, you’d think he was ready to hit ‘the button’.

I was JOKING, henny.

I was being flippant about John Edwards, probably to a fault (Mathew obviously missed the lame attempt at humor). Truth is, there was a time when we wouldn’t have known intimate secrets about our leaders.

I wonder what would have happened if the dirty laundry of FDR, Eisenhower and JFK had leaked out to the GP during their power years. I don’t know — maybe nothing. Thing is, it didn’t happen, even though many of the press and their colleagues knew what was going on. That “gentlemen’s agreement” no longer exists. Indeed, the opposite is now in effect, wouldn’t you agree?

I just find it funny that we are so selective about what and whom we “forgive” in situations like this. Your explanation fits. But it’s still a bit silly.

It reminds me of the days when my elders were convinced that the rock and roll singers I listened to were morally reprehensible, and most of them probably engaged in lascivious behavior — but somehow, to them, Mozart and Wagner were acceptable to listen to, even in church. HAAA

Plus I think it may have something to do with cognitive dissonance- how much do we have invested in these figures? Edwards, very little. He’s a one-term senator and a failed Prez candidate. I would expect him to done, largely because the Dems don’t want anything to do with him. The more we have invested in them, the more we’re willing to look past their transgressions, chiefly because to do otherwise would be to second-guess ourselves. Just a thought.

JUST KIDDING. Of course we can talk politics. What’re them?

What’s for dinner tonight in Slo-people-land?

Lunch sounds good – we are just eating supper after a GLORIOUS hike on the top of the world

love you

What’s for lunch, doll? Tuna salad sammiches??

**SMEWCH**

Actually, I was just wondering why Clinton — along with others, from both parties — was “forgiven,” and John Edwards wasn’t.

Now Mark Sanford…poor guy’s just a loon. I think he needs help, and he needs to get it outside of public/political life.

I have a healthy fear of trying to even entertain the possibility of thinking of myself as high and mighty, because those types of people take the biggest falls.

And, as you and I have discussed at great length, the looking-down-the-pointy-nose syndrome is also prevalent in another powerful, longstanding American institution that shall not be named here today (lest it fuel unwelcome fires!).

Do I love you? Yes I do. Now back to eating my lunch.