During the impeachment investigation of our 42nd President (1998-99), Bill Clinton’s unrestrained fun in the Oval Office allowed the lamestream media to acquaint what was left of America's lingering innocence with alternative uses of the cigar. Of course the story was everywhere because Bill's indiscretion opened a previously sealed file before the whole world - and so everybody could then talk about it. Lawyers perfectly understand how that works and regularly use that reality to get needed information freed up and before a jury for the sake of their prosecution or defense efforts. If the most private aspects of someone's life - something said or done - become 'public record', then even the most stringent, judicially-imposed confidentiality restraints can be thwarted, allowing for scrutiny and open discussion - in whatever context - before a jury and a courtroom full of rolling cameras. That concept is also how some of our formerly most delicately guarded moral standards have been compromised to the point of complete undoing. In the not-too-distant past, for instance, a public news item would use the term "expletive" instead of what has today morphed into, "f**k!" or Sh*t!", etc. And in many instances, depending upon the level of 'artistic' candor or hard-line 'reality' journalism the bad words are right there in all their unequivocated glory. And of course, given enough exposure, those bad words are less and less considered bad. Because our former vision of becoming the best people we can be has been blurred, misconstrued, compromised and now commonly ridiculed.

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