Clock Stoppage

clipped from www.pajamasmedia.com In partiuclar, adultery (without regard to whether the spouse consents) is, without any further consideration, a legitimate topic to report. That inevitably has to lead to an even further erosion (if that's possible) of our political class, a further narrowing of the people willing to enter politics. And the vast disparity between the media resources and attention devoted to sleazy gossip like this versus actual investigation of true government corruption and crime seems to be growing by the day, such that behavior like this will further decay our already quite decadent journalistic class as well." Greenwald and I disagree about many things, but there's not much room to argue where the poor state of the political and journalistic classes (and the increasing lack of differentiation between them) is concerned.