Morning essay: polishing knobs at FOX and elsewhere:

When I was in high school taking one of my six years of Latin, our class read an essay written by one of those obscure Roman authors and the title of the essay, and I’ll paraphrase was “The Reason for the Need of Power” or somesuch phrase to that effect.

The essence of the essay was that the reason men aspire to power is not for money or for titular naming of the position, but for access to sex and sexuality. Now I’m not saying that this is exclusively the case, but it is a prevalent desire of these people who rise to great heights. It is often difficult for some people to discuss, some people dismiss it out of hand, some people feel that sex is overrated, and I understand all these things, however, in many cases this is the truth.

The avenues by which these people utilize their power varies. In many cases in modern times it leads to their fall from grace, witness Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, producer Weinstein. The interesting aspect of this objectively is any and all of these men given their wealth given their position and in many cases given the relative good looks since they are on television that by definition generally presentable, should be able to score a partner or series of partners in the real world without having to have a button under their desk to lock the door.

And the reason that I know this, is it I am certainly no Brad Pitt but in my day was able to be reasonably successful in pursuing my social life. But these people, particularly these men, have the need to strong arm Others in order to take advantage of them rather than seduce them. I don’t really care what Hannity does in his spare time, in fact I wish he had more spare time and was off the air pursuing his love interest. The world would be a better place for that, but propinquity propinks And these things happen.

The best thing that can be said about this union is it keeps two normal people out of trouble somewhere along the line.