Thoughts - part 2

1) Boy, the Olympics are over! Life can get back to normal again.

2) Why is it (in Western society) that when the husband of a couple cheats on his wife, it is deemed, if not expected, that the wife work to forgive and reconvene a happy marriage. While if the wife has the extramarital affair, the husband is in now way expected to forgive and by most accounts, the marriage usually ends. In both cases though, the men still manage to come out ahead.

3) From a couple of weeks ago on the Sunday morning news program Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer's closing commentary was on the bottlenecks that prevent our representatives in congress from getting any work done. His argument was the following: it takes a lot of money to get elected. On average, elected officials spend about $3500 per day (that's right, per day) while on the campaign trail. So when it comes to doing the job, instead of doing what is morally right, they are are bound to abide the wishes of those who put them there (financially).