Live from a white spot in a purple nation on a blue planet...

Ok, we're all fixated on the "Fall of Spitzer." Let me see the hooker's web page, her music, her name. Let me look at her chest and face, and let me judge the woman. Let me read into every intimate detail of Eliot Spitzer's financial dealings and his sexual proclivities. After all that, I come to the same conclusion everyone else did: Yupper, he's guilty.

Of what is he guilty? Wasting inordinate sums of money, sleeping with a woman decades younger than he was on VALENTINE'S DAY, being a hypocrite, and transferring money out of his bank account.  All kidding aside, this is ironic but frightening.

I dislike the guy for my own reasons, as his investigations, which started with the best of intentions, quickly devolved into a full-fledged witch hunt on the whole financial industry.  Is this guy a villain and a scumbag? Undoubtedly. Should he go to prison?  Not for this. I don't want my bank spying on me, even though I don't frequent prostitutes or launder money.  I think prostitution should be regulated by states, too.

Spitzer and Bush have created this monster, so it may be fitting that one or the other would fall under the financial police state they have created.  Even so, let's work to correct the situation where our banks are forced to act as agents and spies of the state.  Stop joining in the festival of destruction and demand the repeal of the police state.  Don't do it for Mr. Spitzer...do it for you.