Just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in; the "they" here being those zany and corrupt politicians, of course.
I have been depressed lately. The Obama cabinet picks have been predictably drab, and the lack of new Sarah Palin content has left me feeling like a junkie without a fix. The Turkey Massacre was fun and all, but I need more. So much more.
That said, if there is one thing that always cheers me up, it's a politician caught on a wiretap acting like a svelte hybrid between The Old Testament God, Quentin Tarantino, and Steven Segal. This Blagojevich thing is f'ing priceless in this regard, as has been well-noted.
When a crisis like this breaks, the predictable flood tide of moralizing (led by moralizer in chief Patrick Fitzgerald, how I have missed him) comes out immediately, but it is soon followed by "subtler," more "developed" lines of analysis.
Thus I open up Google Reader to find this story on HP: Blagojevich Described as "Sociopath" in February Magazine Profile. First of all, thank God for LexisNexis, without ye (and Google) what would modern reporting be?
But second of all, a politician a sociopath? No way! Totally unthinkable.
My favorite thing people say about Ted Bundy is when they claim he was a "successful up-and-coming Republican Operative" and then act as if this somehow separates him from the mass of other sociopaths!
I mean seriously, a sociopath is an opportunistic individual, sometimes with obsessive fantasies of domination and control, who exploits others without moral compunction in order to satisfy his whims... And it is a surprise when a politician is profiled as a sociopath?
Hilarious!
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