This is a story that you have to put some prospective into it before it becomes clear. Some weeks ago...this Republican Representative from Kansas....Kevin Yoder....went off on a trip with other Republicans to the Promised Land. Note, that's to mean Israel. Somewhere in the midst of this trip....the "boys" end up around the Sea of Galilee, and likely had some beverages. One thing led to another. A bunch of guys jumped into the Sea of Galilee. Kevin jumped in, without any clothing....in basic form of skinny dipping.
Word got out. Some media folks noted the trip and this terrible skinny dippyness into the Sea of Galilee. The House asked for an investigation....to get to some facts. Everything is kinda confirmed....to include the fact that not one single federal dollar financed the trip. It was all privately financed (note, there is a great shock to Rep Pelosi because it just isn't right that Representatives conduct private trips without any tax-payer efforts. Congressman Yoder came back after all this mess and said he was sorry.
So I reviewed this mess, and pondered.
Around two thousand years ago....some guys named Mathew, Mark, and Luke had some rather hot days out on the coast of the Sea of Galilee, and likely jumped off in the water in the form of skinny dipping. I'm pretty sure no one said much. Days were hot and a guy needed some relief. Heck, that Jesus kid in his youth....probably jumped off in the Sea of Galilee as well.
Should we be worried about this behavior? Well....skinny dipping is conducted in all fifty states. I might agree that no one skinny dips in the Disrict of Columbia....not unless you do the Potomac thing at 5AM on a Sunday when nobody is much around. But in the other states, there's probably 300k Americans who skinny dip at least once a year.
Maybe there should be laws against it, but traditionally....no one cares.
So this Yoder kid isn't a corrupted individual in my book. In fact, most folks from Kansas will think about this a while and come to agree that they all know forty or fifty folks who have skinny dipped in their life. The only difference here is that they all did it in Kansas. Kevin Yoder did it in the Sea of Galilee. That's a status symbol to a degree, but it just ain't worth getting worried about. In fact, if I was worried about something....it'd be jobs in America, and I'd just let this skinny dipping business just pass.
