Dark Days in NY

It has been a rough, cold winter for us here in NY. We did not need the last bit of ugly news -- that our governor known as a spirited reformer -- actually has been maintaining a standing account for his regular engagements with lovely young things at about $5000.00 a pop. It looks like this guy may become one of the residents of our many NY prisons as the financial details of his dealings begin to emerge as IRS fraud.

I will never forget the look of sadness on his wife's face as she stood beside him while he confessed his crime -- some of it that is. My heart goes out to his 3 daughters as well. How can they live a lifetime in the shadow of his shame?

What really gets to me is the American hypocrisy that seems to be all around us that makes lovely young women fair game. I recall as a teen suddenly discovering that the pattern of exploitation of young women was so deeply embedded in our culture and was socially acceptable if kept within discreet limits. I watch the constant use of ads exploiting lovely young bodies -- many of them prepubescent! There is something deeply sick in our culture that persuades so many that our young ones should be so abused.

I will never forget the day that I was walking across Manhattan when a beautiful young teen in a flaming red dress stopped me, I thought to ask directions, but it turned out to invite me to sleep with her at a price. I was stunned and muttered a startled "No thank you" as she continued on her way. She was, I assume, one of the hundreds of thousands of American run aways who had been snared by a pimp on arriving at NYC.

There is no way presumably to halt these atrocities. But perhaps calling them precisely that -- ATROCITIES -- might give some such as Spitzer pause. This guy should never show his fact in public again and should be condemned by all who encounter him. NO EXCUSES!
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