Sometimes People Really Are Awful

There are people out there who are lower than pond scum, despite not being criminals. Cassy Fiano discusses one of them - a Marine's wife who left her then-deployed husband for a Marxist, then informed him by writing him a Dear John letter. It's bad enough that you do it... but bragging about it? And suggesting others do it? Ugh.

And In Other News

John Edwards finally admits to the paternity of the daughter he fathered with Rielle Hunter. Loyal reader ST sent us this Marc Ambinder post on the story, noting the brilliant headline: Some Guy Admits What We Already Knew.

At this point, it's a non-story, although Edwards is probably sitting in his North Carolina mansion dreaming up ways in which this is the start of his political renaissance. It's nice of the media to cover it after it's no longer a story. I have detailed how I can't stand Edwards in the past, but I tend to think this should just go away, if only for the sake of a little kid who should be able to grow up without being the subject of newstories. It's not her fault her Dad gives a bad name to snake-oil salesmen.