In the spirit of like-I-have-this-time-to-waste, I have been reading accounts tawdry and, ehem, from the paper of record, serious, about the projectile vomit which is the Schwarzenegger-Shriver scandal. (And I know I don't have to link to nuthin' because you have, too.) Things have gotten so bad in the Republican Presidential field that Obama may win a second term in part because the opposing team is so damn bad. (Remember when Republicans were all a-twitter with proposing constitutional amendments so that a certain Austrian-born naturalized citizen could be eligible to run for President? Oh where oh where was Orly Taitz then?)
Daniels dropped out -- I sure his wife, Adultress Cheri, Repentant Cheri, has been reading about all things Newt and Callista, and all things Arnold and Maria and said, No. Oh Hell No! to subjecting herself to that press scrutiny. So, no Mitch Daniels to kick around any more. (Yawn.) And Newt? He's been punked by the American press and hasn't copped on yet. The longer he pretends he's running the worse it will get. And wait until they catch his wife delivering a speech or answering a question on tape. The 2 of them will be American mincemeat very soon. Mark my words. As for Romney, Pawlenty and the rest of them? Booooooooring. And we Americans long to be entertained. But, I digress.
It's polygamy I'm concerned with today, the need to codify and legalize it so we can stop this Oh-Mary pearl-clutching every time some powerful, prominent, full of himself American male exercises his droit de seigneur in our meritocratic, no-royalty-on-this-side-of-the-Atlantic country. Let Bill have his Monica, and Arnold his Gigi, his Mildred, his... and so on. And let all the Hillarys and Marias go on about the business of getting older and jowlier. Let them expose those swinging-like-a-hammock upper arms that are the proud badge of the female crone. And let Wives No. 1 spend the rest of their lives doing more meaningful work than running interference for the pigs they married, resuming the careers they abandoned, or pursuing the dreams they deferred.
The kind of men they married will always "be among us". And there will always be women who want them and will do anything to have them. (See Sinclair, Anne as Lady Macbeth.) But, why demean an entire life being in association with them? They should obtain status as a First Wife. Once achieved they are officially off the hook for their husband's behavior. (It's more efficient than divorce.)
Daniels dropped out -- I sure his wife, Adultress Cheri, Repentant Cheri, has been reading about all things Newt and Callista, and all things Arnold and Maria and said, No. Oh Hell No! to subjecting herself to that press scrutiny. So, no Mitch Daniels to kick around any more. (Yawn.) And Newt? He's been punked by the American press and hasn't copped on yet. The longer he pretends he's running the worse it will get. And wait until they catch his wife delivering a speech or answering a question on tape. The 2 of them will be American mincemeat very soon. Mark my words. As for Romney, Pawlenty and the rest of them? Booooooooring. And we Americans long to be entertained. But, I digress.
It's polygamy I'm concerned with today, the need to codify and legalize it so we can stop this Oh-Mary pearl-clutching every time some powerful, prominent, full of himself American male exercises his droit de seigneur in our meritocratic, no-royalty-on-this-side-of-the-Atlantic country. Let Bill have his Monica, and Arnold his Gigi, his Mildred, his... and so on. And let all the Hillarys and Marias go on about the business of getting older and jowlier. Let them expose those swinging-like-a-hammock upper arms that are the proud badge of the female crone. And let Wives No. 1 spend the rest of their lives doing more meaningful work than running interference for the pigs they married, resuming the careers they abandoned, or pursuing the dreams they deferred.
The kind of men they married will always "be among us". And there will always be women who want them and will do anything to have them. (See Sinclair, Anne as Lady Macbeth.) But, why demean an entire life being in association with them? They should obtain status as a First Wife. Once achieved they are officially off the hook for their husband's behavior. (It's more efficient than divorce.)
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