These are the days of our lives

Who needs daytime soaps? The Rep. Mark Foley scandal has become one, rivaling that of the Anna Nicole Smith soap opera saga. If you're keeping track, Foley sent a bunch of inappropriate emails and instant messages to male teenage pages (all while being co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children), was found out, originally blamed it on a campaign smear, resigned, blamed it on alcoholism, now admits he's gay, and now blames it on being molested by Catholic priests when he was a child, leading to controversy in what Republican leaders knew about it and when, and now leading to some of those leaders suggesting that House Speaker Hastert should resign based on his handling of the scandal.
(take a breath...)
And as for the more tragic, and more unusual Smith case: she marries a 89 year old oil tycoon who dies a year later, is wrapped up in legal wrestling over the estate, has a baby girl, three days later her 20 year old son dies from an accidental lethal combo of medicines, 18 days later she marries her lawyer who says he's the father of the girl, her ex-boyfriend pipes up that he is the father and files a lawsuit for a DNA test and for the baby to be tested for drugs (what the?).
Well. Have you ever watched a movie and been disgusted with the plot because "that's ridiculous, nothing like that could ever happen in real life", "that's just too unbelievable and unrealistic", etc.? I'm probably pretty bad about picking apart movies like this, but current events these days are quickly shattering my ability to do so. If some strange connection between Foley and Smith surfaces in the next few weeks, I'll have to conclude that reality really is much stranger than fiction.

Like of the day:

FactCheck.org - I've posted it before, but with campaign season heating up, I thought I'd list this political fact check site again. Good resource.