Now this one is funny. _r

I'd say "he wrote the book", but since YOU actually wrote the post, I ... well ... I don't know what. BUT - I do know that this is wicked and sly and smart.

I'd say the "ditz" is the politician... the blonde with the fake name is doing what she set out to do ;)

Funny, Kasey!

VERY funny, and much more interesting than its inspiration. Loud applause from East Lansing!

Hold press conferences vehemently denying your own child and paramour. Renew your 30yr marriage vows even as you are screwing said paramour. Some much to love here....

Did you really need to give my husband a manual? Although, I don't give him enough allowance for $300 haircuts and Armani... but some Brill Cream, a wife beater, and keys to a The Palms motel room and he's good to go.

:)

Funny snark piece, Kasey. Congrats on the EP!

Yeah, see this one's obviously humorous, thank you.

ouch, scathing and well-deserved...

Hey y'all thanks for the comments. You crack me up!

Amanda: I have made your point repeatedly to my mother as we have followed this story and she gets really pissed when I do. Give a ditz credit where credit is due.

Ann: Way to represent.

Surly: Hopefully your husband has as a better pair of legs. I think it's safe to say though that you might just put a knife to his throat and THEN write a book about it.

Very entertaining!

It sounds so simple. Very funny post. R

These things keep happening in the (male) political classes. There is something about the need to be a politician that goes with this. It goes waaaaay back, back to the Romans, back to the Greeks, back before that.

Maw, Maw, where's my Paw?" "Gone to the White House, haw haw haw." Doesn't change.

Cheerfully amoral unmarried womanizers like Charlie Wilson are a refreshing throughback to an era which has gone ... these days you can't get elected to anything without a functional running mate. (IMHO, that and Swiftboating were what knocked Kerry out.)

I once started a short-story about a guy who wanted to run for governor but didn't have a wife and started looking on the internet .... lot's of possibilities but it spiraled out of control fast.

These things keep happening in the (male) political classes. There is something about the need to be a politician that goes with this. It goes waaaaay back, back to the Romans, back to the Greeks, back before that.

Maw, Maw, where's my Paw?" "Gone to the White House, haw haw haw." Doesn't change.

Cheerfully amoral unmarried womanizers like Charlie Wilson are a refreshing throughback to an era which has gone ... these days you can't get elected to anything without a functional running mate. (IMHO, that and Swiftboating were what knocked Kerry out.)

I once started a short-story about a guy who wanted to run for governor but didn't have a wife and started looking on the internet .... lot's of possibilities but it spiraled out of control fast.

Don't forget to pay your ditz with money from your campaign fund.

(Thought it was a 400 hundred dollar haircut...maybe it just looked like a 300)

This is great. Well done.

What is it about people who get the least bit famous and think that all the rules no longer apply? It's not just politicians. Mel Gibson, anyone?

it's just so much funnier when you write it than when that idiot did it. excellent, kasey. A+

Witty, sacrastic and smart. Love it!

Shouldn't that be How to not NOT cheat...? No, wait, i mean How NOT to not cheat...

I mean: How NOT to untie the KNOT by not...oh never mind.

rated for Ripped From The Headlines timeliness

This is just sad to me. I don't get this system where having sex with someone, ditz or doctorate, is the equivalent of throwing a grenade into the middle of your life. Not to mention how much I don't care to hear about anyone's sex life unless *they* decide to share it. This is a funny piece, and it really evokes the (to me) gratuitous pain of this endless incident.

I need to practice my snark so I can write my own version: 1. Adopt a quasi-religious regard for monogamy while not having a monogamous bone in your body. 2. Really make a point of what a storybook marriage you have so that when you have an affair, it really shocks and titillates. 3. Slink off instead of saying "it's none of your damn business!" :sigh: I guess mine is not as funny. What's funny is that I, the avowed non-monogamous person, really bleed for these blasted marriages, and the monogamous folks just find it all a great big giggle.

Can you hear me laughing?!
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You forgot to add, "Make sure you convince enough people in the country that you are not like all the other politicians (until they find out that you are)." Excellent post, Kasey. You're on a roll. Or whole wheat, if you prefer. ;)

now THIS is funny!

Brilliant!

That's a lot of work. Very funny.
Rated.

Very funny, really. Rated.

:)!

Hilarious. Still laughing.

Thanks, Kasey.

It's all true, too. Horribly true.

Thanks for the read - not sure how or why one ties morality to politics - maybe more like vinegar and oil - no matter how hard you spin it they don't mix well.

Lee H: I like that idea for a novel. Get your bullwhip out and tame that story beast and see where it goes.

Greg: Can't be How to NOT Cheat because, well, he cheated. But I appreciate you over-thinking it on my behalf. One less thing for me to do.

Femme Forte: Finally I got an A+ on something this week. That more than makes up for the %50 I got on my college algebra exam I got last week. Whoever decided to mix letters and numbers I hope is burning in hell.

Sirenita: Practicing snark is like practicing the trumpet: or something. I was going to say something witty there but then I realize I've never played the trumpet. Forget it. You just keep working on it, but remember, its lonely at the top of Snark Mountain, right Surly?

Gramps: I think people tie morality to politics because they lack a firm grasp of the true meaning of either.

Oh and nobody say anything but those legs in the picture belong to John Blumenthal. Don't ask how I got it.

:)

Funny!

The next move: humble public admission of sexual addiction, then rehab, then a NYTimes bestseller tell all, then running for some office by 2010 or 2012.

Now that's F*@king funny!

Good advice. What could possibly go wrong?

Hilarious..!!

Very good. Very, very good !

Great!!!

Spot on, It always amazes me that high profile political figures think they can somehow get away with it. I think any politician (or any man or women) thinking about having an affair should first watch "Fatal Attractions." Affairs always end badly. Period.

I did not find Cate Longshore post particularly funny but I was amazed at all the venom amd sanctimonious crap she was subjected to in the comments. Now this is not much funnier, I couldn't even get through it, but because it is "morally correct" and cheating poloticians are a favourite punching bag for every self-righteous creep, this post is great? And even after you graciously thanked Cate for the inspiration, some comments about her post are still rude. Now that't a great and safe way to get mass approval standing on someone else's back!

@Martina: I don't mean to douse your flames with my seltzer bottle 'o' doom but "morally correct"? If that's how it came across that was never my intention. Perhaps it would surprise you to learn that I found certain parts of Cate's post to ring quite familiar. I have been that woman -- but engaging in a certain behaviors and evaluating them for what they are are two different spheres that can and should co-exist. You can do something skanky, still know its skanky, and do it anyway. It doesn't mean it isn't skanky just because you happen to be the one who is doing it. So if my post to Cate came across as sanctimonious, or rude, maybe you just really don't know me.
As for me "standing on her back" I have to disagree vehemently (which I'm sure you're finding quite predictable at this moment but oh well). What I did was parody her. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or have you never heard that?
Lighten up.

I don't believe you. You've killed two birds with one stone - wrote another "let's hate cheating and sleazy men who get 300-dollar haircuts" and did it at the expense of another writer who got undeservingly ridiculed for writing something different. If you think that your post came across as flattery to Cate - just re-read your comments. "Very funny and much more interesting that its inspiration."It's just so much funnier when you write it than when that idiot did it." Doesn't it make you think? You've made it clear what side you are on.

Um... those aren't my comments. Those are things other people said about what I wrote. I'm not about to tell people how to react to what I write -- unlike you, I feel people are entitled to whatever opinion they please -- love or hate, without accusing them of being manipulative because they don't agree with me. That is the last I'll say on this.

Sure, sure... But manipulative sounds about right.

Sooo... does this mean you won't be adding me as a favorite?

I'm really surprised we haven't seen at least one politician pride himself on his ability to get women into bed. Someone mentioned Charlie Wilson.

It's not that they cheat, it's that they lie about it. America loves crazy sex lives. Any politician that just went with it would probably have their own reality TV show and be President within a few years.

what are the straps meant for?

Funny Games

If you're thinking about cheating on your spouse but don't think it through you're going to get caught and that could cost you big time.
sofa beds

really funny indeed :)

When i see it, i think about Isabel Marant's last fashion show...