Wonderful article by Gary Kamiya about the Gov. Sanford scandal in Salon.com. The last para in particular struck me:

I’m neither defending nor condemning Sanford — such judgments, from outsiders, are meaningless. I know nothing whatsoever about Sanford, his wife or his lover. I also admit I might be wrong about him. He might simply be a good actor, who cynically donned a devastated mask to win sympathy. But I don’t think so. Whatever happens to Sanford politically will happen, and it won’t be pretty. He knew the rules of the game, he broke them and now he has to pay the price. But that press conference was about something much deeper than politics. It was awful, but it was real. And painful as it is, in the repressed American sexual landscape, reality is better than artifice. For the real enemy is not sin. The real enemy is plastic.