I can't decide who's dumber...

...Tom Daschle or Michael Phelps. I've already mentioned Daschle's sin of not being careful enough with his taxes. Phelps wasn't careful enough about how he was photographed. Doesn't he realize that his sponsors might be a little reluctant to pay millions of dollars to someone without the "correct" image? Doesn't someone of his generation realize that we live in an era of cell-phone cameras and YouTube videos? Even boring old white guys know that. He probably thinks he has a right to some privacy, but that's not the Faustian bargain he's made. If he wants to cash in on his Olympic success, he'll have to live by the sponsors' rules. And that means not being photographed breaking the law. Duh!