Nor should we be shocked. After all, the U.S. is the home of "Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Snooki. Debauchery is an American specialty." At the very least, the scandal should help refute claims that government employees are "out of touch with ordinary Americans. As it turns out, some federal workers reflect our culture all too well."~Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
* * * Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
I agree with the article in the Washington Post - 'tis indeed a reflection.
Ask me anything on Charles Dickens. Mrs. Micawber to young Copperfield. "Boy, as I have frequently had occasion to observe, When the stomach is empty, the spirits are low."
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