Our appetites are our undoing. It’s not a question of drinking from the poisoned chalice, but gleefully asking for more. Returning to our happy place, during business hours, when we know better.
Some people can’t stop lying.
Some can’t stop texting all the wrong sh**.
How fitting the storied e-mails, the much sought, much denied commingling of state secrets and side-dealing passed from server to server in the halls of power like a radioactive fruitcake, should end up on this man’s laptop, placed there by his thrice-burned wife. Or “wife”, if you prefer.
A billion dollars in advertising and a lifetime of ambition unraveled by a 50-year-old man spanking his monkey in the afternoon while his wife is at work.
Come children, to Toluca Lake. Fill your bags. Starting tonight, the desire-reward pleasure cycle has been shortened to ten seconds or less. Sugar wallow! Sugar wallow! Starting tomorrow we will discipline ourselves. For now we are going to feed.
Let us pretend its an annual ritual and not an animal one, a predicate of who we’ve become.
Bravo!