Summer Lovin'

The military better step up its recruiting. If the reason they are giving for firing a four-star Army general is really the truth, then up to 60% of enlisted folks better be watching their backs.

The story--in today's USA TODAY-- is about a four-star general who was separated from his wife and just three months shy of retirment when he was kicked out of the military for having an affair with a woman outside of the military.

Sometimes you read a story and say to yourself, surely there's something else going on.

Under military law, Silliman  said, sex by a married soldier with anyone other than the spouse is adultery. An officer who left a marriage must have a final divorce decree or risk being in violation.

Although adultery is a crime under military law, typically it is prosecuted with other infractions. Perhaps the best-known case involved Lt. Kelly Flinn, an Air Force pilot who faced court-martial in 1997 for disobeying orders to stop dating a married man. The Air Force dropped the case and allowed Flynn to leave the service.

Observers speculate that the harsh punishment is in reaction to a recent sex scandal in the airforce where their top lawyer, Maj. Gen. Thomas Fiscus, was dismissed and demoted two ranks for affairs he had had during a 10 year period.

Give me a break.I'm not buying this story.

And as far as sex scandals go--just what is the airforce doing about the repeated charges that male cadets  have frequently raped the women cadets? Why aren't heads roling for that? Forget dismissals, let's have some court martials.

Peggy Vaugh, author of the: Monogomy Myth" and hostess of Dear Peggy.com a website devoted to the Beyond Affairs Networks shares some statistics that the military might want to review.

Conservative estimates are that 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an extramarital affair. These figures are even more significant when we consider the total number of marriages involved—since it's unlikely that all the men and women having affairs happen to be married to each other. If even half of the women having affairs (or 20 percent) are married to men not included in the 60 percent having affairs, then at least one partner will have an affair in approximately 80 percent of all marriages.

And, if that story isn't enough to make you roll your eyes, the New York Post has a juicy story  today about the head priest of St.Patrick's Cathedral. The headlines tell thes story:

REV.'S SECRET 'LOVE' SHACK

RECTOR'S LOVE NEST

As the lyrics from Grease say:

Summer lovin' had me a blast - summer lovin', happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me - I met a boy, cute as can be
Summer days driftin' away, to uh-oh those summer nights

Tell me more, tell me more, did you get very far?
Tell me more, tell me more, like, does he have a car?