There's so much in the news about the private lives--rather, what should be the private lives--of politicians and celebrities. I just don't understand why it's news.
It began when I was in school, watching the Congress attempt to impeach then-President Clinton over events stemming from his affair with a White House intern. I wasn't much aware of politics at the time, but even then I didn't understand why his bedroom behavior was on the news every minute of the day and why the Congress was getting involved.
Over the following years, numerous politicians at local, state, and national levels were found to be cheating on their wives...some with other women, and one or two with men. Each time this was discovered, it filled the headlines and "top stories" for weeks. And still I thought, "who cares?"
