Sad that Miller would rely on the same tired excuses as Schaefer to try to justify his sexual harassment of women - "I'm old and it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks" - what BS - he shouldn't have been harassing women in the first place - and with that comment it says essentially that he has done it so much for so long that he now doesn't know the difference in what is demeaning harassment and friendly professional behavior. What great role models for our progressive state.

There's a real simple rule guys - if you wouldn't want an old man to do it to YOUR daughter, don't do it to someone else's.

I agree that actions like Schaefer's towards staffers and coworkers shouldn't be considered acceptable in this day and age. But isn't banning the SI swimsuit edition overdoing it a bit? Next they'll be telling them not to read the Post and Sun because of lingerie ads, or the swimsuit ads that appear in spring.

Get over it MHK919, you voted for this PC nonsense, so this is what you get. It's the direction your party is heading.

Well BG, while I find what the legislature is doing a bit silly I would much rather have them in office than say someone who told blacks to get over slavery as done by a Republican in Virginia. Let's also not forget the well honed sensitvity former Senator Macaca...err..Allen.

I don't quite understand what the story is here. Sure the Sports Illustrated thing is a little on the goofy side, but the fact that legislators have to take sexual harrasment training isn't really news is it?

I mean, government employees of all stripes, at least federal employees, have to take mandatory sexual harassment training, so why not those who make the laws in the first place? That only seems reasonable.

Corbett - it's not that they took the training in the first place, it's their reaction to it that is disappointing. Miller saying it's hard for "people with white hair" to learn not to harass women? The guy has been president of the Senate for a generation. That so many of these guys in a position of power - especially so-called progressive Democrats who ought to know better - sound like grade schoolers giggling over a sex ed manual is just pathetic. And, more importantly, and more problematically, it says they don't take it seriously.

Busch mandated the training for Delegates because there have been cases of harrassment that have come to his attention in the House and he wanted to avoid a Mark Foley-type situation where he was accused of not doing enough to stop it. I don't know whether similar situations had occurred -- or had been brought to the President's attention -- in the Senate.

The Good Ole Boy club is slowing fading, but it's not fading fast enough. Our federal office recently had a retirement of one of the worst sexual harassment contributors that I've ever encountered. Management wouldn't do anything because "he was a veteran." That's the excuse we received and we tollerated it for years.

They must tollerate poor spelling in your office too.

BG, honestly, do you ever have anything constructive to say? Yeah, I didn't think so.

No, I'm totally negative...just like O'Malley. The difference is that I can sit here like a fly on the wall and harmlessly lament while geniuses like you are soon to realize that you put a moron in the Governor's mansion in some warped and twisted desire to get back at Bush. You'll show that Bush won't you?

BG, I voted for O'Malley and I'm proud of it. And I didn't vote for him in order to get back at Bush (whatever you mean by that). Are you angry that Steele didn't get voted in? If so, take that concern somewhere else. Harassment in the workplace is against the law, regardless if it occurs in federal or states offices or in private businesses. We will no longer acknowledge your filth.

GMD, I voted for O'Malley and feel bad because he is importing cabinet members from California and Ohio. Can't he find new faces in Maryland? Packing the cabinet with former Glendening appointees will lead to corruption and inefficiency in the O'Malley administration. Looks like a one term Governorship because he has forgotten his base and supporters.

O'Malley first should start governing than think about the US presidency.

So we have a re-education camp from our Legistlature. I wonder how long it will be before O'Malley makes re-education mandantory for the rest of us.

Phyllis - Did O'Malley have to attend? I seem to recall some questions about his behavior with single women.

Baltimorian, thank you for looking into your crystal ball and predicting the future. Will you be running for Maryland governor next time? Or will you just be running your mouth?