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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.

Chris F. Masse — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:03:54 +0000

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.”

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:00:43 +0000

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…

“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 it, is a fishermen’s village…)

More on the Eliot Spitzer scandal from Slate…

Inside the Emperors Club V.I.P.

Suspicious Activity Report filed by Mr. Spitzerâ€™s bank

Eliot Spitzer’s bio

Justin Wolfers is a wise man.

Chris F. Masse — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:26:39 +0000

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 private mistakes, rather than public misdeeds. This is why I’m more worried about what the SEC is selling than what Eliot Spitzer has been buying.

Psstt… CNBC will have a special Eliot Spitzer piece starting at 8:00 PM EST, tonite (Wednesday, March 12), I’ve just heard.

Psstt… And “Page 6″ has the pic of that woman, that “Kristen”…

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