selling out

I’ve been thinking about this Armstrong Williams thing all day. My first reaction: I wish someone was willing to pay me $242,000 to promote something I believed in! But jeez, the more I think about it… I mean, I’d like to think I’d have the integrity to turn down a quarter-mil in those circumstances. Y’know, in a sense it’s a lot of money — but really, for most of us it’s a few year’s annual salary. People are going to be looking askew at Armstrong for the rest of his life — and rightfully so. If you’re gonna sell out like that, at least get enough so you can retire to some island somewhere….