So yesterday was the day that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner began two weeks of “intensive therapy” that will completely cure him of the wildly inappropriate behavior he has been showering on almost literally every woman he has come in contact with since – well – since his pre-teen years when those magic changes started.  

Who is this guy?  And can he be real?  For weeks I’ve been hearing about his antics over and over again and then heard him claim that he’s a victim of his generation.  Then I watched him tell us all that he needs help and follow up that “It’s a good thing that behavior that would have been tolerated in the past is being called out in this generation for what it is: inappropriate and wrong.”

Really?  Which behaviors would have been tolerated in the past?  The lascivious remarks?  OK possibly.  The licking and slobbering?  Grudgingly. The headlocks?  No!  When was it ever even marginally acceptable to put anyone who’s not your little brother or sister in a headlock?  That’s not even sexist – it’s just a sign of being a major ass.

And today this out-of-touch ass from Lewd World went away for two weeks . . . while still holding on to his office.  Yes!  He and his headlock are still in charge of one America’s eighth largest city.

At some point you have to cut the cord.  When your mayor is a social moron on a grand scale, when he honestly can’t behave like a normal person, when you can’t allow him to be alone with any female employee, you have to let him go.  I’m sure the San Diegans want to, too.  But it seems that the city fathers and mothers didn’t foresee a slime ball like Fliner making it to the mayor’s office (or maybe they didn’t foresee his being found out on such a grand scale), so they did not make the path to ousting an easy one.  The members of “Recall Bob Filner” will have to gather 101,597 signatures in 30 days to force a recall – which will then cost the city between $3 million and $6 million to conduct and won’t be held for another 60 to 90 days.

I’m not a prude.  I’m not offended by sexual activity.  I’m offended by stupidity.  I wasn’t offended that Bill Clinton had an affair – or whatever we decided a bj was – with Monica Lewinsky.  I was offended that he claimed he hadn’t instead of telling the reporter it was no one’s business.  I wasn’t really offended that Eliot Spitzer frequented prostitutes.  I was offended that he went above and beyond that to violate the Mann Act by transporting them across state lines.  I wasn’t even offended when Anthony Weiner tweeted his package to the world, but I was when he claimed to the press and the rest of us that he didn’t recognize it.  Filner has crossed a line because what he did with the ever-growing number of victims was stupid and offensive and everything he’d done since has been stupid and offensive.

In any case, two weeks aren’t going to fix this guy.  Two years won’t fix this guy.  He doesn’t want to change; he just wants his job back.