For a couple of years now, people have been talking about how, sooner or later, Michael Smerconish is going to have to grow the hell up, and stop fantasizing about being a policeman or Ronald Reagan and even, God love him, approach something closer to being the Delaware Valley’s own Bill Maher, minus of course the looks, the brains and the outright hatred of marriage and children that pulls Bill ever so close to our hearts and yours. The Smerc took a break from his “Obama Project” — his roving campaign to break the news that, hey, this Obama character could have legs! — on Sunday to dish an eerily Maher-ian trope: Maybe… prositution… should be… LEGAL?

It is ridiculous that governance of the nation’s third-largest state is changing hands because two consenting adults swapped sex for money instead of the conventional cosmopolitan or margarita.

When the dust settles over this brouhaha, I hope we’ll be ready for a long-overdue, realistic, adult conversation about prostitution. It’s time to bring the world’s oldest profession aboveboard in communities willing to allow it, clean up the trade, and clamp down on the exploitation. Let government share in the revenue, but otherwise stay out of the private affairs of consenting adults.

This was run, of course, next to a GIANT picture of Ashley Alexandra Dupre, in case anyone needed a visual on, you know, what a prositute looks like. Ahem. But nevertheless: Bravo, Michael! Suuuch a big boy! While we have you, what say we join hands and say that, look, if you had a two-year long threeway with your driver, shouldn’t you really just come out and admit it? Be proud of it, even! Even if the threeway was NOT with two ladies and one dude! Join hands with me, Michael! Look off into to the sunset! Smile for the cameras! We are free!!! THREESOME AMNESTY FOR ONE AND ALL!!!
Inky: I’ve Never Engaged In This Kind Of Thing Before, But Yes, I Think It Can Be Easily Done

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm.