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Eliot Spitzer has simply demonstrated once again that those who rise to the top of organizations are very often the most demented, conflicted individuals in any group.
The only question that remains for those who work for such people and vote for them when they run is why we continue to be grossed out, shocked and scandalized when the very personality attributes that got them to the top manifest themselves in questionable form.
“Prostitution is inevitable, so we might as well legalize and regulate it.”
That’s what many libertarians think, right? But Nicholas Kristof has a piece in the New York Times that is well informed and balanced… and that could change the mind of some libertarians…
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“Kristen” (outed in today’s NYT), photographed in a French port… (Saint Tropez, it is said, but I’m not so sure… St-Trop, as I know [...]
Justin Wolfers is a wise man.
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Zubin Jelveh highlights this piece of wisdom (which I didn’t quote in my previous post):
It seems to me that the truly important violations of the public trust are when the power we give our government officials is sold, rather than what government officials choose to buy. Yet our political scandals are too often dominated by [...]
Ratted by his bank, sex-addict New York governor Eliot Spitzer (alias “Client 9″) resigns.
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What brought him down
Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it’s death. You’re giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.
Dixit Eliot Spitzer, the then-New York attorney general.
Frightening.
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Psstt… Somebody registered Client9.com just after news broke…
Eric Zitzewitz’s 10 minutes of fame
Turns out he has published a paper on Eliot Spitzer —PDF file.
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