The #MeToo chickens come home to roost
T he wife and I were talking about sexual harassment a couple of weeks ago. I forget which famous person who was accused and fired that day; you lose track after awhile. But I do remember saying, "Jeez, who's next, Garrison Keillor ?" It was a joke. I was trying to come up with a famous person, other than Pope Francis, who would seem least likely to play the horndog with his coworkers. And now here we are. Look: Any rich, famous man who hasn't sexually harassed an underling? If so, please step forward; it'll save time. The rest of you: what the hell's wrong with you? Something's happening here, a wise man once said. What it is ain't exactly clear. I think we can conclude that a great many wealthy, powerful men are swine. Probably they're swine because they're wealthy and powerful. They do it because they can. So much for the notion of being elite. We can also conclude that the women who were groped, assaulted or got an unsolicited view of ...