Reach out and touch someone...powerful.

Mu-nich rub

I thought it was pretty clear that in today's society, it is inappropriate to randomly touch coworkers. Even if the man or woman's intentions are completely innocent, they should realize that any sort of contact with another coworker could be misconstrued. I thought this was obvious. I thought most Americans understood this.

But then there's ol' Dubya.

Honestly, his intentions seem pretty innocent. He enters a room, picks out the one woman he sees, speed walks over to her and quickly massages her shoulders. Maybe this was sexist, but it wasn't harassment. However, it was pretty stupid.

Now, if this was his wife or daughters in his own home, that would be one thing. But this was the current Chancellor of Germany. He groped the leader of a major country in front of other world leaders. Sure, it's funny to me, but it's sorta sad too.

His hair could use a good tussle

What would have been better is if he started getting extra friendly with the other powerful people in the room. Maybe massaged Tony Blair instead. Or perhaps patted Vladimir Putin on the bottom, like football players sometimes do. Or perhaps tussled the hair of Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, (have you seen his hair?! It could use a good tussle).

Point is, he should know better than to do that, especially given who he is, to whom he did it, and where it went down, (at a G-8 summit, surrounded by world leaders and the press). What next?! Start cursing at these events?!

Oh. Nevermind.