No Glove for the Gov

Does power beget peversion or perversion, power? Why is it that some of the brightest stars have the darkest centers? We don't just need to look at the scandals from the past twenty years to find examples of dastardly misdeeds. From the "extraordinary appetites" of the Bourbons of France to Spain's King Philip IV and his thirty illegitimate children, these rowdy royals harbored a sexual lust of limitless bounds that would make some of today's torchbearers blush in comparison. Spitzer may have been a steamroller, but in a state famous for its political machines, corruption, and general success at blocking all efforts at change, he successfully brought down Wall Street corruption and refused to back down from a hostile legislature. From the outside, it seemed, his conscience was clean. So which came first, the chicken or the egg? (To read more about Europe's swinging past, check out: Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty by Karl Shaw.)