Adele Ferguson - Oct. 15, 2009

Focus in Letterman episode be vulnerability

THE PEOPLE taking the most interest in what has got to be the most picayune topic of the moment, the David Letterman affair, are, I suspect, women in the workplace.

There can’t be one woman who has spent any number of years out in the workplace who has never been propositioned by one of her male superiors. I mean, even the homely ones. Women, that is.

Often it’s the boss who’s homely. And if he’s hot to trot and doesn’t get to do much trotting at home, it’s that old song, if I’m not near the one I love, I love the one I’m near. After all, the equipme...