"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:
It's absolutely amazing that a person who graduated from Annapolis, who
reached the rank of captain in the US Navy, a Naval Aviator and
Astronaut.... could suffer such a total break from reality.

Why is it amazing? Smart, successful, powerful people do all sorts of
stupid and self-destructive things all the time. It's part of being human.

We've had Presidents get blowjobs in the oval office. We've had Vice
Presidents (Aaron Burr) and sports heros (OJ) charged with murder. Michael
Jackson was into child molestation. We've had corporate trainwreck after
corporate trainwreck (Enron, Tyco, WorldCom). How many times have we read
about our politicians involved with drug abuse, alcoholism, sex scandals,
fatal car accidents, and so on. The current President of Israel has been
charged with rape.

Tailhook, Abu Graib and the sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy
have shown that our military are not immune to human failings either.

It may be sad, but it shouldn't be amazing, or even surprising. The story
"Woman drives 1500 miles to assault love rival" probably plays out every
day. We just heard about this one because it involved high-profile people.

The bit about the diaper is just something that fed the media's lust for
anything involving bodily functions. She was using a tool to achieve a
goal that apparently astronauts use on a regular basis. There's threads
almost every day on these newsgroups about how we deal with exactly the
same issues in our airplanes. Not to mention ads in the Sporty's catalog
for products to help solve the problem. Get over it.