The Wit of Donald Kaul: His take on DSK / Ahhnold and Maria / and the crackpot Camping

[Mira]

Some Good News, at Last
The fact that one of the world's most powerful financial officials could be arrested and thrown in jail for assaulting a chambermaid gives me hope for my country.

By Donald Kaul

There's been a lot of bad news lately — wars, revolutions, earthquakes, floods, famines. It's getting so you need a drink before you're ready to face the evening news.

Which is why when something cheerful happens, I take time to savor it. Like, for example, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest.
The highest-ranking International Monetary Fund official, a man with a good shot at becoming the next French president, Strauss-Kahn was recently indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a housekeeper in a Manhattan luxury hotel suite. He's now under house arrest.
I find that exhilarating. The fact that one of the world's most powerful financial officials could be arrested and thrown in jail for assaulting a chambermaid gives me hope for my country. He wouldn't have been arrested in France, that's for sure, and not in most other countries.

His lawyers are hinting that he'll claim it was a consensual hookup. Sure. That's what every hotel maid dreams of: a quickie with an out-of-shape old guy whose skin resembles the drapes in a funeral home.




For the rest go to:

http://www.otherwords.org/articles/some_good_news_at_last

[whathehell]

1. I share Kaul's exhileration

A wealthy and powerful man met his

match in the NYPD and the American judicial system.

Once in awhile, this place still makes me proud!

[blondeatlast]

2. It really does restore my faith that the guy actually got arrested. nt