Gov. Sanford takes a personal junket to Argentina on taxpayer expense, and rightfully will refund the money.

A millionaire ex-basketball player uses taxpayer non-profit grant funds to have his car washed and errands run while his foundation has to give back hundreds of thousands of funds he mismanaged. Penalty? He has to loan the foundation $73K and take an ethics course.

A Republican spouse belongs to a nutty Alaskan-independence movement - hilarity, 24x7 ridicule.

The spouse of the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee pleads guilty to taking bribes as a Detroit official in her own right. Reaction? “No connection proven, they only live together”. Crickets.

Sex scandals? Lots of column space. Corruption and nepotism? Not so much. Republican? Scorn and ridicule. Democrat? Excuses. For the folks who’ve replaced IOKIYAR with IOKIYAD, I have a suggestion: It’s Not OK Period, or if I want to make it memorable: Period - It’s Not OK Either One.

(Game points for whoever comes up with the best slogan that fits the acronym)

Update: Of course one of the greatest pieces of hypocrisy over the past weeks is that it was important that the world could rally around the image of Neda from Iran to stir up anger, just as it was important not to release torture pictures of inmates at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, because knowing we tortured/interrogated more than 100 inmates to death, it just might stir up anger.

A vs. B, us vs them, 2 + 2 = 4 until it doesn’t, sometimes it equals 5, sometimes 3, sometimes what you want it to be.