While I was away at college, my troubled cousin took his own life in a dramatic living room standoff in front of his wife and toddler children. My mother told me that the story didn't make the New York papers because something else catastrophic happened that day, and I remember thinking, "what a relief."

I don't wish the Governor of South Carolina any ill will. His reputation as a cheapskate has amused me from time to time. It was refreshing, though, to see a man five years younger than me (and who looks ten years older), giddy with excitement and filled with love light for once in his life.

Of course, the Charleston paper is all-Sanford, even today, but have the recent Hollywood losses pushed poor Sanford below the fold ALREADY? There was so much more to be milked from this story!