The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...

RE: Whore Snore

Liza and Melinda, I confess I am torn here: Is the problem that big-deal moralizing politicians always cheat or that everyone cheats and the big-deal moralizing politicians always get caught? The late Mrs. Chatterbox, Tim Noah’s wife, Marjorie Williams, once wrote that “the core myth of Washington life is that the men and women who win political power here somehow also win exemption from the irrational, elemental forces of human nature that guide behavior everywhere else, exalting, ruining, ennobling and disrupting lives in Phoenix and Flint and Tulsa and Miami.” That sounds right to me. Sex makes people stupid. Possibly it just makes extraordinary people extraordinarily stupid?