MY THOUGHTS ON MARTHA STEWART

are pretty much similar to Dean Esmay’s.

Well, no, I kind of think about her the way I think about Kobe. I don’t know what happened in Colorado, and I don’t know what’s going to happen in Colorado. But I do know that both Martha and Kobe could’ve saved themselves all kinds of trouble if they’d just acted honorably in the first place. A multi-kajillionaire doesn’t need to sweat over a measly $250K in stocks (OK, measly for her), and a basketball star with a smokin’-hot wife doesn’t need to be hitting on the staff at expensive resorts while he’s rehabbing a knee. But instead, both went ahead and did something improper (I defy you to tell me that it was just fine for Kobe to invite a 19-year-old into his hotel room late at night, regardless of what did or did not happen next), and then both shouted, “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!”.

It didn’t work in Martha’s case. It probably will in Kobe’s, if only because you can’t accuse the SEC of sleeping around.