I suggested a sliver lining in the seeming unending "confessions" of new Governor David Patterson of New York (along with the more serious prostition ring scandal of Governor Spitzer): Maybe politiicans, and aspiring politicians, will get the idea that their best approach to non-marital sex is the same as the Doris Day/Debbie Reynolds movie personas of the 1950's (whether male or female). See yesterday's entry.
Dennis Miller has a different take (which attracts me because I have vision problems/macular dgeneration). Patterson is, of course, legally blind.
Miller's take is that Patterson has PROVED that being blind does not have to restrict your activities--doing more to show the capabilities of the visually handicapped than anybody around. As Miller says: Patterson shows that you can have sex with multiple women, smoke pot, take a "blow" of cocaine--all--despite being visually handicapped--AND become Governor of New York.
This, as Miller says, gives me a lot of encouragement and hope as a legally blind person. True, it does not give me quite as much of a lift as it may give others. But that is because of my OTHER handicap: a pathological FEAR of women--making it difficult to be inspired by Patterson in that direction. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that this fear of women is fully JUSTIFIED, and not even an unreasonable fear.
Still, I appreciate Dennis Miller pointing out what an inspiration Patterson is to all legally blind people.
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