The Spitzer scandal and resignation probably still has a few days to go - Sex! Money! Power! Fall from Grace! Read All About It! - and there are a few gems in the flood of dross.

The Nation [1] profiles incoming Governor David Paterson.

Feministing [2] spotlights the harrowing tale of Dr. Laura Schlesinger, who has found the root cause of the Spitzer scandal: Silda.

"When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,”

Oh, fuck you, Dr. Laura.

Scott Horton in The New Republic [3] asks "Was the investigation of Eliot Spitzer politically motivated?" Look for that story to not be picked up by the Times, Post, News, and so on.

Just wrong: The New York Times [4] finds the young woman at the center of the affair, complete with links to her freaking MySpace page. In contrast to the Horton piece, look for this story to be picked up by every media outlet under the sun.

Glenn Greenwald [5] goes to town on the many layers of hypocrisy in the Spitzer case. Go read it now, here's a sample:

Because Eliot Spitzer is a wretched hypocrite who mercilessly and cruelly prosecuted others for the very acts in which he himself engaged, and because he's so very sleazy, there's no reason to question [6] the vast, extraordinary law enforcement resources [7] expended -- under highly unusual circumstances [8] -- by the Bush DOJ and FBI to investigate a crime that the Federal Government almost never prosecutes.

And on Open Left [9], "Double Standards And Protecting the Status Quo", by Chris Bowers.

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