Why is it so difficult for American state governors to have it all? You watch these guys trying to juggle their work with their family commitments, and your heart just heaves for them.
Having added "spending $80,000 on sex" to that list of demands on his time, New York's Eliot Spitzer finally resigned in exhaustion this week. You can only spin so many plates, Eliot! Find a third-wave feminist: she'll explain.
Even for those state legislators who've yet to add these illegal assignations to their workload, the balancing act remains a difficult one. But a certain someone has the answer - and it won't surprise you to learn that it's Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Having recently requested the return of his Austrian military tank from an Ohio museum for use in his schools programme, speculation was rife as to which piece of his hardware arsenal Arnold would draft into public service next. Well, the wait's over: turns out he's been using his Gulfstream to commute the 360 miles from his Los Angeles home to his Sacramento office. Daily.
Yes, Arnold has been forced to admit that he chooses to fly to the state capital "and fly back again so I can be at night with my family, can do the homework with the kids, can spend time with my wife and everything, which is extremely important".
The governator declines to be drawn on whether the practice vaguely compromises his green rhetoric, but expect him to debut an "At least I'm only screwing the planet" joke some time next week.
