The ooh-scary headlines about 25% of teenage girls having STDs makes me glad I'm not a teenager...but where is the corresponding study of teenage boys' rates of STD infection? It seems as if once again, it's all them evil womenses' fault.
And then there's the recently-former governor of New York. I can't quite figure out why Mr. Spitzer decided to go for the goldplated blowjob when he just could have had an affair like anyone else - thereby not breaking the law and, given his past crusades against prostitution rings, not making a hypocrite of himself - but as David Byrne, of all people, points out...who are Clients 1 through 8? While nothing about the way this thing was pursued lets Spitzer off the hook, the aroma of politicization wafts quite a hefty stench here. As Byrne suggests, given the enormous fees these particular "escorts" charged, we're not talking about your average, everyday johns here: we're talking people who have the cash to spend up to $4,000 for an evening with a prostitute. Surely among those other clients, there might have been a Republican or two, no? So why aren't their names in the news?
(And for the sake of the nation's headline writers, it's really a shame Spitzer and Larry Craig couldn't have switched sex scandals...if only to facilitate the headline Spitzer Swallows?...)
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Client 6 has been exposed as the Duke of Westminster, "the richest man in Britain" and, of course, a husband & father:
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/5169
As you know, I'm a Pixies fan, but I have to admit your post title is leaving me mystified. What lyric or song title are you referring to?
I think if you run through the lyrics to "I've Been Tired," I think you'll see the relevance to each of the items discussed above...
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