POST ELECTION ERECTION:

The presidential election has just ended and already the media has moved on to meatier things. General Petraeus, one of our most decorated soldiers, who successfully refocused the failing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is a hero by any measure, was forced to resign as the C.I.A's director because he had an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. What is wrong with this country? We act as if we aren't aware that men and women have genitals. Now we have drooling headlines of double entendres, another general in the mix, and twins no less, one of whom started the whole mess because she received a threatening EMail from Paula Broadwell. I'm sure a movie is being thrown together even as I write this. There is morality, and there is poking our noses where they don't belong. Remember when the media looked the other way while presidents were having affairs? They knew it was none of their business unless it threatened the country in some way. Just two people getting it on. It happens. Married, unmarried, the genital's siren song can seduce anyone, at anytime. The hyper-religious may see things differently, but there's no denying the facts. Yet it's not the hyper-religious who suck this up and spew it out. It's the media. Like teenagers who've just discovered masturbation, they double entendre and gulp and giggle as they finger the facts. Now that's immoral.

And now we have an investigation to try and make this whole thing into more than a private affair between two consenting adults. Did Petraeus use his position as C.I.A director to maybe hire a private jet or acquire silk-sheeted accommodations for his paramour? Oh, please. If you ask him he'll probably write you a check for the full amount, you petty bastards. But no,  you have to dump him in the mud hole. There are no national security concerns. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. admitted as much. And now some politicians, relieved to be able to put their shoes back on again after haggling over the economy,  have somehow fused the affair with the attack on the American Mission and a C.I.A. safehouse in Benghazi into the mix. This is definitely going to be an affair to remember.