Well, of course I watched it!  I live in Colorado so who could resist - - even the non-football fans among us - -tuning in to last weekend’s game between the Broncos and the Steelers.  And yes, when we watched Tebow lob that 80 yard pass to Thomas we all did believe that he would be walking on water any day.

And yet…even in Denver, Tebow has his detractors.  He just seems too good to be true. The grouches complain, and of course, all that kneeling…must he?

By now, Herman Cain’s epic rise and fall is old news but I always think that it’s useful to ask after one of these political pageants:  what have we learned?

As I keep lamenting in this space, I’m amazed that we’re still dealing with the subject of sexual harassment.  I wrote my first book on the subject in 1993:  Sexual Harassment:  A Reference Handbook and I sometimes feel as if I’ve personally trained the whole country on the subject.  Evidently Cain, however, missed that memo.

What can we glean from his travails?  Three things:

So we just survived another sexual misadventure by powerful men: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Strauss-Kahn led the brigade with allegations of messing with the help. Arnold–with a ten year employee with whom he admittedly fathered a son and –Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a powerful head of the International Monetary Fund with a maid at his high end New York hotel.

What I haven’t seen much discussion in the press on this issue is a recognition of the basic fact that both of these situations occurred at WORK! This is a place where you’re supposed to be safe from sexual advances and able to focus on well…work.

If you missed Dr. Laura’s rant on her radio show, and the resulting fall out you’re lucky. For the uninitiated, she decided to use the N word a dozen times in response to an African-American listener’s question about how to get her white in-laws to stop using the word.

Dr. Laura used the popular argument that “Black guys use it all the time.” Citing black comics and HBO as apparent role models, she pointed out that they use the word and that somehow makes it okay for white people to indulge.

Well of course, I could have predicted it. Yet another CEO with an alleged zipper problem resigns amid allegations of sexual harassment.

Backed by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, both Hurd (Hewlett-Packard CEO) and Fisher deny that there was any sexual relationship. (Does this remind us of I did not have sex with that woman?) The internal company report found that there was no violation of its sexual harassment policy but that Hurd broke HP rules of conduct and irreparably harmed his credibility and integrity.

Unless you’ve been under a rock this month you know that Angelina Jolie opened last week in the new spy thriller Salt. You may also know that she earned over $20 million for the role.

Perhaps you think that no one could be worth that much just for acting in one movie but what you may not know is what else she did to earn that money. (No, it’s not appearing on the cover of People with Brad Pitt and the kids).

There’s been much ado and tisk-tisking about the Salahis’ –now infamous White House gate crashers. Most people seem to assume that the Secret Service royally messed up and of course that’s perhaps true. But the reality is many of those same people who are aghast at that breach couldn’t defend their own security systems.

If you’re in corporate America, you’re probably used to key cards, sign-in sheets and the like but how safe are these systems? Do you test for leaks?

Well, it’s irresistible this week: The need to write about Sarah Palin, given her book tour (Oprah! Barbara Walters! The cover of Newsweek!) and her book release today.

In the book she mostly gives John McCain a pass, but blasts his campaign, citing various slights from campaign minions.

The memoir, Going Rouge, described as “score settling” by many critics, does aim straight at the strategists, complaining about being booted offstage on election night, having to pay the bill for a $50,000 background check, as well as being muzzled when she wanted to talk about Bristol’s pregnancy in her own way. (She wanted to talk about personal responsibility and the campaign “muzzled” her).

Did we really need one more celebrity sex scandal? Like it or not, that’s what we’re getting with the latest revelation from Letterman. Blackmailed for sleeping with staffers over the years, Letterman refused to cave and decided to go public with his announcement about the whole sordid thing. He turned the shakedown into brilliant late night theater and grabbed the last laugh.

Or did he? Some pundits have said “who cares,” arguing that he was single at the time and these women were consenting adults. But what’s been lost in the whole milieu is that these were all staffers who worked directly under Letterman’s supervision and control!

Ugh! We’ve endured a week of bad celebrity behavior. Serena Williams threw a profanity-laced finger pointing fit at a U.S. Open lines woman on Sunday. That same night, Kanye West leaped onto the stage to steal the thunder from Taylor Swift at the VMA’s. (MTV’s video music awards, for those of you who don’t have fifteen year old, music obsessed, twins as I do!) And don’t even get me started on the outburst by Representative Joe Wilson during President Obama’s health care speech.