What did you do the night before Valentine’s Day? Make dinner reservations? Call your favorite florist?

Not Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-N.Y.). He spent the evening banging a call girl:

ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.

Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.

Mr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform an end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.

Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.

But a person with knowledge of the governor’s role said that the person believes the governor is one of the men identified as clients in court papers.

The governor’s travel records show that he was in Washington in mid-February. One of the clients described in court papers arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, the Emperors Club VIP on the night of Feb. 13.

When he’s not washing baby powder off himself before his wife gets home, Spitzer spends his time taking on The Really Big Issues, like the horrifying practice of  executives making money.

Those “caring, loving” Democrats. Nothing like tearing up a cemetery in order to vote.

Several of the nearly 1,700 caucus-goers parked on gravesites at the church’s cemetery, including the grave of Kyle Darocca.

Tires left huge holes and damaged the grounds all around the cemetery, which has been there since the 1800s.

The Democratic Party of Denton said it will work with the church to repair the damage.

I’m all for law and order but this seems a bit over the top.

The nine police officers who patrol between the town’s two stoplights have seen their training and weapons upgraded in recent years. Namely, the department now has an automatic rifle. An M-16, to be precise.

And why does such a small police force need an M-16? Why, terrorism, of course!

“Before, there was never the threat there is now,” Lawson said, adding that terrorists could possibly hitch a ride on one of the drug or immigrant smuggling routes that run through Jourdanton. “There’s all types of possibilities.”

I suppose anything is possible. Still, I rather prefer this small town police chief’s approach.

Pearsall Police Chief Joel Gonzalez doesn’t see the need for heavy firepower, such as M-16s, in his community. In his 11 years with the department, officers have only used a shotgun once to shoot at a snake, he said, so he’d rather focus his officers’ energies on training and knowing the locals. Gonzalez also worries about the message big firepower would send in a small community.

“I know that every department wants to be prepared, but I really don’t feel like we should escalate to that level,” he said.

Sounds like a guy that knows what he’s doing.

But I thought Canadian health care was great? Guess not.

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