FIRST THINGS FIRST: I don’t know Bill Bennett, I’ve never even met him, and I don’t have any interest in his rise or fall. That said, what’s happening to him tonight is silly.

The Internet is blazing with the news that Bennett, a conservative and author of “The Book of Virtues,” among other titles, gambles (read the two stories in Newsweek and the Washington Monthly here and here). And he doesn’t just gamble a little, he gambles a lot.