THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING

found with a prostitute in the name of Gid

And that is for the better. The time for secret, hidden dirty secrets that are safeguarded by both the perpetrator because of power and the victim because of vulnerability need to go away. There have been many instances of sex-abuse over the years and that doesn't make it acceptable.

There have been many instances of different types of abuse over the centuries that have played out to a new day, one in which through public awareness and pressure it has ended. Things like the women's vote, equal rights, respect for an immigrant's dream have all found a new day, or are in the process of being corrected.

The ugliness of sex-abuse has led to a new movement: Me-too. It is currently on the move and growing, making awareness something that is quickly spreading across the world, and well it should. People need to learn how to live like humans, not perpetrators of some hidden animal kingdom, and this goes mostly to men, but women too.

It took just one spark to light a revolution, to launch an idea and to blow away the crime, which it is. It staggers my mind about just how prevalent it has been over the years, how many men of power in politics, business, Hollywood and now even in the culinary arts, not to mention the clergy. Let's hope this is the new age of civility.

Regardless of your political affiliation, what Donald Trump admitted to prior to the election that was all caught on tape, was the lit charge that brings down the powerful and reducing them to the ash heap they deserve.