For those of you who missed Matt Lauer's sit-down with former senator Larry Craig – which aired last night, oh, right around the same time as the Indians/Red Sox game – we figured we'd bring you the highlights, courtesy of our same-sex oriented sibling (who, incidentally, is all about lavatory sex!)
"The scandal-plagued politician and his stoically supportive spouse." We've seen this scene a thousand times and yet, for whatever reason, it continues to transfix.
But what is it about this so-predictable-it's-almost-cliché tableau that nonetheless has us so entranced? Is it, as some lady we've never heard of* postulates, that "if you see a guy standing next to his wife, it offers some explanation that he might be telling the truth?"
Or is it that we're all, essentially, voyeurs, overgrown high school girls prone to spurts of schadenfreude and juvenile meanness, and invariably drawn to moments rife with awkwardness and public depravity?
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