Debora Palfrey, the Washington Madame, Brings Scandal in Washington D.C. to New Heights

It is impossible not to notice what has been taking place with the Washington scandal involving "Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 50, dubbed the DC Madam in local media, has been arraigned in federal court on charges of operating a Washington prostitution service for 13 years until her retirement in 2006." -MSNBC

After recovering from the deeply shocking fact that our representative saints and angels in the capital, might not be, and after sitting down to consider, this history shaking revelation about men and power; it occurred to me that you as a reader might want to hear more about Deborah? Or; not....

Two things are happening with regard to this yawner, first, the news is acting like this is a whole new world, they just woke up, and men of power, who have over active libido's, are suddenly not that way, until now? Please...somebody in the media both televised and written needs to give some news hounds a wake up cup of something 'cause this isn't "news", its "olds". Old hat, old behavior, old ways, old standards, old times, old "fat cat" behavior, old from the "dark ages", OLD! It's not new; men have been sleazy like this... (And let's not overlook the women who also like the power that they could hold sway with) since the earliest recorded history. Men, and women, of power have abused it, and the libido gets into play there, since we've been drawing pictures on cave walls of a man being ordered out to get the Hairy Mammoth, behind him...you guessed it...the little cave lady with the club nobody wants to discuss.

This certainly seems like the PR of denial and victimization in that what the system is being threatened with is, "I'm gonna rat you out." Isn't that a new type of behavior- gee whiz, a "madame" who doesn't want to keep the closet door closed, wow wee, there's a shocker that is news worthy. Doesn't that cloud the question of what she is really about? Her claim as the victim of a mean spirited legal system that reigned in her service is that she was just providing fantasy women for a fee and that sex wasn't part of the bargain. Wow that sure sounds believable, doesn't it? Doesn't it sound just like an out of control power monger, with practically unlimited resources, to choose instead to deny himself or herself the ultimate pleasure and settle instead, for just a dance and dalliance? Cookies and milk anyone?

What is troubling about this, isn't the so-called bust, (a terrible pun in this instance), but isn't that what you normally call it when somebody is corralled (oh oh, another pun, folks it was unintentional...no writer with any dignity would pull off a pun and then act as if they hadn't!) by the long arm (oh gosh...another one...) of the law? But the giving over of behavior which is clandestine, to the light, for reasons that aren't at all honorable, this is what we ought to find shocking, only we can't. Most of us are familiar with the saying, "there is no honor among thieves," but we want to believe that a women who has sex with us for money isn't a thief? We also want very badly to behave as if though the men who make such trade are just exercising their wholesome maleness by any other name. It's not going to float, not now, not in history, and not in the future, what has happened here is nothing short of a travesty for so many. It is a terrible shame that somebody isn't alive who could write a play about it, might they title that play "the death of innocence," hmm, what do you think? And then the final question - how many years will the contribution list for her legal defense fund be classified?