Secret Meat

The world is a funny old place, and this point cannot really be made enough times when it's funniness is of such a violent and constant kind.
This morning, for example, the headlines are full of a special blend of blatant hypocrisy. Nothing new, but always funny:

There's a prestigious business symposium on "the application of Platonic and Hegelian ethics to business" where students were given lap-dances by hired strippers.
The point is made, professor. All business is whores business. Get ready for life as a working girl.

In Texas, a Cop maces a baby squirrel while onlooking children cry. Protect and Serve, ya'll.

An Anti-Porn Lawmaker in Indonesia's Conservative Islamic Political Party is caught looking at porn himself. In Parliament.
He humbly asks God for guidance.

But this is old news to us, and indeed business as usual in government buildings everywhere.

"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity." -Mark Twain, Autobiography

Every few years, usually as a warm up to an election season, we watch the now familiar public spectacle of some shiny self-righteous congressman, liberal or conservative, getting caught buying whores, and committing adultery on a sick or dying long time wife or partner, even while crying out for justice and accountability.
Each year in the late spring we watch as the best and brightest rising stars of the Baptist Seminary circuit, the most bright-eyed gay-hating red-blooded men of god among them, go crazed into the streets, filled with desperate seasonal yearning, like mayflys, to have sweaty meth-fueled sex with young male whores, often in the back seats of their family sedans.
In the heat of this passion they are fairly brazen, buying plane tickets to Bangkok and whatnot, and they get caught. And when they get caught their feeble explanations about male-on-male counseling and stance-width crumble apart in a babble of self righteous regret and they weep publicly. They always cry and ask for guidance from the Lord, and indeed, they are forgiven. But they are still fucking scum.