Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

The news, of course, is strange. But then, it often is. I am using it as an inducement to listen to a remarkable pop classic, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." It's playing regularly on radio.

I have listened to internet versions sung by Madonna, Joan Baez, Elaine Paige and Patti Lupone. My vote goes to Lupone, singing an arrangement by Andrew Lloyd Weber.

But they're all good because the song itself is amazing. It stirs even me, not an easy task.

Puritans may imagine that public repudiation, embarrassment and humiliation will somehow put a stop to philandering. If you listen closely to the seductive strains of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," you will realize that, no, it won't.