Sex, Lies and Distractions

For two weeks American media have feasted on yet another political sex scandal. It is not that budget deficits, kill Medicare initiatives, America's collapsing educational system, rising theocracy, assault on women's rights and three, or is it up to four now, foreign wars have suddenly disappeared. It is that sex scandals work very well to distract the American citizenry from our real problems.
So-called "mainstream" Republicans and Democrats reap the added benefit of watching an uncomfortably outspoken, highly articulate proponent of progressive causes crash and burn.

So while Congress threatens to default on America's debt, the nuclear crisis in Japan worsens by the day, Homeland Security strips American citizens of their Constitutional protections, state after state enacts hideous laws invading a woman's control over her own health and welfare, our country adds Libya to its undeclared war list, violent storms destroy huge slices of territory while drought, fire and flooding rampage the globe as the planet warms and the oceans rise, we can focus on the real problem - sex stuff.

Good job.