Adding to the list becomes a daily exercise now

I'm going to assume you're up to speed on Al Franken.

Subsequent "inappropriate behavior" (isn't that a nice, sanitary term?) revelations coming across the radar screen include

NPR Roger LaMay (who comes on the heels of that organization's news executive a few days ago):

On Wednesday, NPR Board Chairman Roger LaMay announced that he was stepping down at the end of his second one-year term. LaMay, who remains on the board, said he needed to devote more time to running the popular Philadelphia public radio music station WXPN, where he is general manager.

However, according to a knowledgeable source, LaMay is the subject of a complaint filed with NPR alleging past inappropriate behavior. Few additional details are currently known.

Stephen Bittel, Florida Democratic Party chair:

The resignation comes after Politico reported that six women had complained about Bittel leering at them and making comments of an explicit, sexual nature. He also, apparently, kept a lot of breast-related paraphernalia in his office that made the women feel uncomfortable:

“There was a lot of boob stuff in his office,” said a woman who was a fundraiser years ago and had to interact with him. “I was told by other women not to go into his bathroom. I was warned.”

In a written statement, a spokesman for Bittel didn’t dispute the women’s accounts and acknowledged he had the breast-shaped stress balls. But, he said, they were a gift “from a former female general counsel of his company years ago as a joke for his birthday. He keeps them in a drawer with other gag gifts.”

None of the women accused Bittel of touching them in any way, but it seems they didn't like the way he let his eyes do the walking:

“He’s just so f----ng creepy,” said a former female party staffer, anger palpable in her tone. “He just leers at you, and stares. I don’t know if you know what that feels like, but he just leers at you. I don’t know how to describe the feeling.”

It's probably a lot like being trapped on a plane with Al Franken.

And then there's Ohio state legislator Wes Gooden. This one is particularly scurrilous. The damage he has wrought to the cause of traditional morality is huge. At what point did this guy give his soul over to his kind of depravity - and I don't just mean the shenanigans in his office. The chasm between his public persona and his real self was nearly infinite. How does one hide the cognitive dissonance? What the hell motivated the guy to keep talking the talk about social conservatism? Did he ever come close to cracking? Was he relieved when he got caught? Will his wife stay with him?

An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office.

Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.

The right-wing legislator, who pushed “family values”, was reportedly witnessed having sex with a man inside his office who was not employed by the legislator.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the observer told Ohio House Chief of Staff Mike Dittoe what had happened on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Dittoe responded by telling House Speaker Republican Cliff Rosenberger who in turn met with Mr Goodman.

The 33-year-old, who has been branded the “conscience of the conservative movement”, resigned for “inappropriate conduct” shortly after the meeting took place.

Mr Goodman, whose Twitter biography describes him as “Christian. American. Conservative. Republican. Husband to @Beth1027”, has regularly claimed "natural marriage" occurs between a man and a woman.

"Healthy, vibrant, thriving, values-driven families are the source of Ohio's proud history and the key to Ohio's future greatness,” reads his campaign website which has now been taken offline.

“The ideals of a loving father and mother, a committed natural marriage, and a caring community are well worth pursuing and protecting."

The glaring question as this cascade's momentum increases, is, is this a recent phenomenon, or is the fact that society is finally seriously investigating it bringing a seaminess that has always been with us to light?

If it's the latter, the gossamer thread by which civilization hangs is thinner than we'd been presuming.

I leave you with Damon Linker's latest column for The Week, entitled "Al Franken Is Just the Beginning."