Unhappy Should't Mean Insane

A Yorkie dad stabbed his teenage daughter 13 or so times and killed his 4-year-old son in order to get back at his wife for her affair. That he then went to have a pint and calm himself doesn't even seem that much more crazy.

That one man pushed the needle past the red zone on the father-insanity-meter may offer some perspective to the "how stupid could he be" questions circling ex-NY love guv Spitzer [Earlier: "Eliot...Eliot...Eliot; Tsk...Tsk...Tsk"] as we watch his political career swirl down the drain. And his marriage? And his relationship with his daughters? Will his story be worth learning from?

What about those of other (once-) unhappy dads?

Mitch Winehouse's affair is now being trumpeted as a key influence in daughter Amy's music, although it did not do much for their relationship and can certainly be blamed, fair or not, for some (heck, let's go for all) the self-destructive parts of her life.

And it is probably good for all their cartoon-like careers that father Hulk "Hogan Knows Best" had an end of marriage affair with his daughter's best friend — she's 33 and on the prowl for some celebrity of her own.

If only the father really could be a (not holy, but not profane, either) trinity. Then he could do best for himself, best for his children and, if married, best for his husbandrying.

** Original sin? Fathers, like everyone, have to overcome original idiocy. **