Local rural Arkansawyer Gene Lyons lands a little essay on Salon about why, while politicians of both stripes mess around and use their families as props, it’s worse for Republicans to get caught tomcatting.

He provides an interesting breakdown on how the seven deadly sins break out by party emphasis.

By making lust one of their special ones, appropriating it, as it were, Republicans invite more ridicule when they get caught lusting. You see.

Another thing: It’s more fun to ponder a sanctimonious Republican shacking up than to ponder a Democrat preaching greenness as he climbs into a great long gas guzzler.