Finally, Spitzer Gets His Happy Ending

I guess we still have Eliot Spitzer to kick around. In fact, I'm just about sure this guy is forever consigned to being a punchline.

If Eliot Spitzer had had to choose a venue at which to make his re-entry into society, he would presumably not have selected a former massage parlour in Chinatown on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

But Mr Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York state after getting caught up in a call girl scandal this spring, did not get the choice. Happy Ending, the former parlour in question, is now a sleek bar and it is where Slate, the online magazine was holding its seasonal drinks party.

Mr Spitzer this month week started to write a column for Slate as part of his comeback - he wrote last week about the Detroit bail-out - and so he showed up at the Slate party to be sociable.

So nice to see Eliot's got himself a new job. Maybe his next column can explain how Bernie Madoff bilked investors for $50 billion while Spitzer was the scourge of Wall Street as New York's Attorney General.