Do Women Behave Better Than Men?

Composed at Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois--

Here's something that women do much better than men:  stay out of trouble.

American prisons hold a very small percentage of women compared to men.  There are about 115,000 women in prison and close to 1,500,000 men behind bars.

Of course, before men go to jail, they usually behave badly and three of our top citizens are being investigated for serious and surprising charges.

The former Governor of New York, Eliott Spitzer, resigned after being linked to a prostitute.  The Democrats like nothing better than to pull down the paragon of Republican virtue during an election year.  David Patterson, as one of his first official duties, confessed to marital infidelity.  Yikes!  What's going on here?

The Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is trying to hold onto his job amidst allegations of financial impropriety and marital infidelity.  He's now been indicted.

Kilpatrick's shenanigans have so far cost the city of Detroit about $10 million.  This is $10 million more than the city can afford to spend investigating its Mayor and defending lawsuits from former city employees.  Many people have lost their jobs because they spoke out against Kilpatrick's alleged misdeeds. 

Judging by his righteous comments in the media, Kilpatrick has no intention of retiring.

I've met Kwame and he is very charismatic, but I'm not sure that charm and charisma will serve him during the trial.

Talal Chahine may top the list of bad men in the news.  I met him when I was in Lebanon in 2001.  Chahine is the restaurant impresario who's world has come crashing down amidst tons of bad news, including:

• The conviction of his high-school age son, who killed another man over a woman
• Jury tampering suspicion when authorities found out Chahine was looking to defend his kid in possibly illegal ways
• Multiple children with multiple women, apparently not all of the relationships worked out well
• Alleged links to the terrorist organization Hezbolla
• May have grafted as much as $20 million from his from his restaurant business, which was shut down a week ago, leaving over 300 people out of work
• An emergency trip to Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with the United States

Many older boys never seem to grow out of bad behavior. 

Do you agree that women behave better than men?