Okay, it wasn’t exactly betting on the Cardinals to win the World Series when they were still 5 games short of a playoff spot in mid-September, I’ll admit that. But still, you can see in this week’s news stories what I meant three weeks ago when I told you Herman Cain’s rivals for the GOP presidential nomination were due to turn up the heat against him. And to boot, I wasn’t far off the mark with my lame joke educated guess that the insinuations against him would be sexual in nature.

The Herman Cain sexual harassment story is moving too fast to keep up, but did he really believe such charges and settlement wouldn’t explode. But the right wing is anxious to pin his sins on liberal media, because, as Ann Coulter opines, “we have better blacks.” Huh?

Herman Cain has been admitting more and more details about the sexual harassment allegations and settlements. Now an attorney for one of the women claims Cain is violating the settlement agreement not to disclose details, creating pressure on the employer to release everyone to talk. Popcorn, anyone?

The John Ensign report from the Senate Ethics Committee is really a sad piece of pulp fiction. You have a US Senator in a strong position of power essentially bullying a female subordinate into an affair, refusing to give up on it after being caught several times, finally trying to cover up the evidence of the affair and pay off the participants, and lying and covering his tracks as the plot slowly unravels. That’s about it in a nutshell.

But the details are even seamier.

Quick, let’s all raise our hands: How many of us could live on less than $10 an hour?

That’s a take-home pay of roughly $300 a week. Most one-bedroom apartments cost at least $1,000 a month. Ooops. There goes nearly the entire salary in one rent check.

So how do the nearly 33 million U.S. workers who make less than $10 an hour survive?