Every once in a while it’s refreshing to read a let-it-rip lambasting of a public figure who seems to richly deserve it. Naturally, Taylor Marsh couldn’t be offering you this scarification of George Allen’s character if it weren’t for the AP; but given that a blog is like a letter to a friend, or several thousand of them, many of whom “know” you only because they like your tone of voice, you can lower the bar as you wouldn’t for straight reporting. Now, the photo with its caption is one of those juvenile cheap shots that make you roll your eyes, except that---since we’re talking up close and personal---I had fondly imagined that someone pulling Sen. Allen’s high jinks was probably an old worn-out blowhard along the lines of Speaker Hastert. (I gave up watching television immediately after 9/11, so how was I to know?) Thus the photo did a public service in that it provides evidence that you needn’t be old to be an old fool. But it does seem to underscore a creeping suspicion that has been surfacing with the other effluvia of the Foley Scandal---that people who think morality only has to do with sex show it by not applying morals or ethics to much of anything else, including, dare we say it, money. So this is fun, but you’re better off with the article Marsh cribbed from as far as making up your own mind without indulging in Schadenfreude.