1444 Consequenched

“Consequences…”
I don’t know how many times I said that to my kids as they were growing up. How many times their failure to plan led to bad outcomes. How many times I had to remind myself they were kids after all, and lacking in that key element of maturity that helps them foresee the results of their actions. That element, in fact, that defines maturity¾ the ability to see it before you step in it.
I guess that’s what makes congressman Chris Lee’s recent peccadillo so disheartening. I’m sure you remember the story. A congressman answered an ad for a date on Craigslist. He used his own name, and sent the woman a picture of himself. Not wearing a shirt. A pretty cheesy picture at that, taken of his reflection in a bathroom mirror, with his smartphone also visible in the picture.
Misplaced morals and bad composition.
Funny, he was able to plan all of that, and execute it, and yet not see the next obvious outcome. Discovery and ruin.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, he was married. And had made some pretty strong statements about the sanctity of that particular institution.
The louder they are the harder they fall.
That’s what’s so scary though. This guy is a congressman. He’s a leader. Presumably, he’s going to be using logic in shaping our laws. He’s supposed to see the consequences of those laws. He supposed to use extrapolation, and cause and effect, and all those higher order thinking things.
But no. He uses Craigslist, and his own name, and a picture, and the incredibly public World Wide Web.
To his credit, when found out, he immediate resigned. So. Did his conscience finally get his illogical lust consequenched?
Or was he scared shirtless.
America, ya gotta love it.