Ungovernable Passions

What is it with these Governors? They marry women who maintain a household under difficult circumstances, who raise their kids, and help them with campaigning. But their wives are not enough. Perhaps the Gov's egos need an extraordinary amount of stroking. Maybe the pressures of holding office are just too much, and they just go haywire.

So we have Spitzer, Ensign, Stanford, and that's just recently. Is infidelity a politician's disease? Should a women ever marry one without a Draconian prenup? One that demands ruinous alimony and corporal punishment for the unfaithful?

I have another solution: Sperm Limits. No, that's not a typo. Married officeholders, male or female, would have a zero-tolerance limit on giving or receiving sperm out of wedlock. The only exceptions would be contibutions to, or withdrawals from, accredited sperm banks.

Sperm Limits is a neat, gender-neutral solution. Proven violators would automatically be removed from office, and sentenced to 1,000 hours of Dr. Laura Schlesinger.