So the New York Times is reporting that John McCain once may have had an alleged affair with a female lobbyist who's 30 years younger than him. The story seems kind of thin and the New York Times, despite its lofty reputation, has had some clunkers. It blew Whitewater way out of proportion, starting a runaway train that led to everybody in America becoming obsessed with a stained blue dress. It's reporting leading up to the Iraq war was, well, shameful.

Of course, this is a matter of public interest because McCain decries the influence of lobbyists and the young female lobbyists had representing corporations that had business before committees McCain serves on.

What am I thinking?

Nobody cares about that. They only want to know whether McCain was having an affair with the young lobbyist.

When you think about it, though, this is refreshing for a Republican sex scandal in that it involves an alleged heterosexual affair involving adults and doesn't involve, say, creepy guys from Idaho soliciting sex in airport men's rooms.

Forget about Iraq and the economy and all of that. This is what it'll take to get people interested in politics again.

This just in: McCain denies he had an affair with the woman, causing 70-year-old men all around the country to lose hope that they'll ever be able to get their own 40-year-old woman.