A Thought About Edwards

So maybe he needs to deny the baby is his, if somebody has seriously maintained that it is. (But HAS anybody?). He doesn't owe anybody (other than, arguably, his wife) any "confession" about an affair that belongs to his private life.

This is pure Comstockery, writ large. What the hell is the National Enquirer doing, snooping around a hotel room where two consenting adults are doing whatever they're doing? What business is it of anybody else's? Why is the MSM admiringly preparing to creep into the same set of nocturnal shadows? This ain't good, people.

And how can we use that offensive and judgmental word "cheating" about a domestic situation we literally know nothing about? We don't know what private agreements may have been reached between the Edwardses -- up to and including the possibility that she may have been physically delbilitated to the point of accommodating, or even suggesting, alternate forms of companionship for her husband. I think we all know of relationships involving physically impaired partners -- of either gender -- in which there is a tacit understanding of that sort.

And this possibility won't be invalidated even if Edwards should be coerced into going on national TV wearing sackcloth and making an abject formal apology to his wife.

Even as I speak, Wolf Blitzer is promo-ing a bit on "the report that finally forced John Edwards to confess."

Confess? What crime has he committed that requires a confession?