Shipwrecked & Comatose

Okay.  That was a bit dramatic.  It's hardly the end of an era, especially considering the "era" is only a year.  In any case, after a year of working part time in the Global Insight NYC office for "training" I'm being kicked out. When I first started working in NY, there was plenty of space left in the office for me to work.  Then IHS made yet another acquisition and they condensed the folks from the newly-acquired company and the Global Insight folks into one office. I was sharing the one open desk with another Herold employee who lives in NYC and simply wanted to work there for convenience.  We alternated days.  Now they hired a new full time sales person in Global Insight, so I have to give up the desk.  I'm back in Norwalk in the Herold office every day soon as is my other Herold coworker.  Tomorrow will be my last day in NY.  I have mixed feelings about the whole thing.  Much of it is work related of course.  Even after ...

Now that Weiner has resigned and the various weiner jokes have died down (too bad - they made me giggle like the 12-year-old school girl I am), it's time for me to examine this whole situation with a little  perspective. Americans are so strange when it comes to what we demand from our politicians.  We want them to be "just like us".  They can't be too intelligent, or too rich, or too successful, or too well-educated.  They have to be as normal as possible. Yet when it comes to the moral character of our politicians, we demand so much more from them.  They must be above reproach in every way.  They have to prove over and over again that they are practicing Christians* who go to church every Sunday without fail.  They can't show any sign of weakness of character.  They must be paragons of virtue to all of us.  I don't see why that is.  Why do we care more about a politician's sex life, which is none of our business, but don't want h...