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The World's Least Likely Lady Macbeth???

Anyone else catch yesterday’s ripped-from-the-headlines Law & Order finale? About a New York governor who hires expensive young hookers (and some strange, tangentially related murder)? Anyone else notice that the single biggest difference between the Spitzer narrative and L&O’s—aside from the fact that the fictional governor gets away with it—was the craven legal meddling by the ruthlessly ambitious Silda character? Just checkin’.