Funny this wasn't mentioned in his official bio...

So the governor of New Jersey is resigning because he, although married (to a real live woman and everything), had an extramarital affair with another man. "My truth," said Governor James McGreevey, "is that I am a gay American."

Here's the weird part. (I know, you're thinking that first paragraph was already pretty weird.) Not only is McGreevey married now (to a real live woman and everything), but he's been married once previously. I haven't seen photos of his first wife, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt and presume that she, like the current Mrs. McGreevey, is a real live woman and everything.

So, to quote Fred Willard in A Mighty Wind, "Wha' happened?" Did McGreevey just wake up one morning and decide, "You know, this whole hetero thing just ain't cuttin' for me — I need a taste of 'the love that dares not speak its name'"? I don't know why his first marriage broke up (apparently Mrs. McGreevey #1 now lives in British Columbia, where men are men and moose are nervous), but if this predilection had anything to do with it, why get married (to a real live woman and everything) again? How do you make that mistake twice?

And for pity's sake, man — you're the governor of a state, with all the intense media scrutiny that attends the job, and you didn't think someone would eventually spill the beans on the fact that you're hitting on one of your top (or perhaps bottom — however that goes) advisors? Did you miss that whole Lewinsky thing? Do they not have CNN in New Jersey?

Speaking of New Jersey, the folks there must be absolutely ecstatic to learn that they were forking over $110,000 per year from the state kitty to pay some guy to play Terry and the Pirates with the governor. When they say, "your tax dollars at work," I doubt the good citizens of Jersey thought anyone would be "workin' it" quite like that.