I cringed along with the rest of you during the holidays when Tareq and Michaele Salahi got busted for crashing a state dinner President Obama held for the prime minister of India. But for me it was personal. As the pictures of the outlaw couple posing proudly for pictures at the White House flickered across CNN, I said to myself, “Oh, man. The jig is up.”

I could list dozens of famous I’ve seen there, but the one that really caused me to be star-struck was Carole King, singer-songwriter and, it turns out, jerk.