Air Kisses

I can't believe it! Blago, guilty? But he said he was innocent, and why would someone say he's innocent if he isn't?

Nobody knows him better than his wife, Patti, I assume, to whom he blew a kiss before the verdict was read. A kiss! Blown across a crowded courtroom! Is there anything more pure than that? What do twelve jurors know? He is just a chatty guy who tends to go on a bit but deep down just goes about being innocent and blowing kisses to his wife. Shame on the rest of us, thinking we know better.

Maybe we're just so accustomed to seeing men behave badly that we rush to judgment. Maybe we need to step back and cut the guys a little bit of slack, with them being born with one chromosome that's only half the size of a real one and all.

Take my gynecologist. Like Blago, he's pretty chatty, although as far as I know he hasn't come close to committing any kind of fraud. He's a really good doctor, and a super nice guy, but he's got that stunted chromosome problem, so sometimes silly things come out of his mouth. Like when he came right from examining my daughter into my room, and gushed about how beautiful and bright and thoughtful and solid she is, how she's one special kid. (The full size chromosome was still working when he said all that.)

Naturally, I did the math, and gave him a look which said, Obvi! She's my daughter, half Ocean. Hello!!!! How could she be anything less than beautiful and bright and thoughtful and solid and downright special? Yes, I said all this without uttering a word, because women can do that, and as Blago has shown us, it's a useful skill to be able to keep the chatter to a minimum.

Anyway, my doctor's Y chromosome kicked in before he had a chance to save himself, and he looked at me, incredulous. "She is so much saner than you are!" Harumph! He should stick to gynecology. Then, to add insult to injury, he told me my back hurts because I need to do core exercises. You just don't say that to a woman who has already told you she is in the throes of P.M.S. Honestly.

But back to Blago. Apparently he's going to have to blow his kisses for the next three hundred years from a jail cell. Just for being a chatty Cathy. I'm glad Patti continues to stand by him, no matter what the rest of think. She knows him better than anyone.