'Mammals,' those in power, can't always resist temptation

A state senator – who will remain unnamed – once told me that "we're all mammals" in reference to a sex scandal at the State Capitol.

Another senator had been caught using a state computer to, shall we say, do something naughty while watching a woman do something naughty online.

That comment, I suppose, referred to our human frailties and that we can fail to resist temptation and do the inappropriate and even the illegal.

Gotta say, after thinking about the "mammals" comment later, I wondered "aren't we 'thinking' mammals, with discretion to suppress our worst urges?"

Anyway, this all brings m...