So, I'm Thinking It Could Have Been More Exciting

Ok. So Mark Felt is Deep Throat. The biggest political secret of the last thirty years, perhaps the coolest part of the whole Watergate affair was "Who is Deep Throat"? It goes right up there with "Who is John Galt?" and "Who's Next".

But how do we explain to the children, our most precious resource, the future of our nation, that we grownups were transfixed and even a little pixilated about who gave up Nixon, which took our respect and reverence for our political leaders down a few notable notches (hopefully for good) and now we discover the man responsible was the #2 man at the FBI (BTW...what does the #2 man do, anyhow?).

Not that Mark Felt isn't a hero. Some say that as a law enforcement official, he should have taken what he knew to the proper people and through the proper channels. Yeah, right. The nation's chief law enforcement official (Nixon) is planning and hiding capers and money in the most outrageous political scandal ever, and Mark Felt should go to the police?

He did the right thing. And he is a hero. Thank you, Mark.....uh, Mark Felt!

But I still say Kissinger would have been sexier.

joe