Our Celebrity Adolescents

Of late, certain international and American luminaries have comported themselves rather shabbily. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, aged seventy-four, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, aged sixty-two, spring to mind with allegations of sexually assaulting hotel maids. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, no spring chicken himself, has recently been tripped up by his own feet of clay. Al Gore did not dignify himself or his Nobel Prize with improper advances alleged by masseuses. Anthony Weiner and Charlie Sheen should be old enough to know better. Age, I have often heard is "a state of mind", but these middle aged to early elderly men prove- for too many, years only produce- "a mindless state".