So many good choices... how could we possibly just
choose one?!
Before I get into the meat of this article (or, more appropriately, the gristle and fat), I want to acknowledge something that I'm willing to bet everyone was expecting me to write about. Representative Anthony Weiner has caught a lot of deserved flak for tweeting pictures of his... weiner... and having some very strange contact with young women. He is a married, is a Democrat and, while he did nothing illegal to my knowledge, is still responsible for creating a media sideshow full of obvious puns that lasted far longer than it should have.
I didn't mean to ignore this whole scandal. I wanted to write about it. The thing is, I have a habit of watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, both of which covered this thing extensively. Hell, Jon Stewart went to high school with the guy. They said so much about the incident, I decided that I wouldn't write about it in order to avoid accidently copying a joke or two. I wasn't trying to dodge it because Representative Weiner is a Democrat. He deserves just as much hell as anyone else, regardless of what political party he is in. Truth be told, I think it's more appalling that he lied about it. "I cannot say with certainty that that is a picture of me"? Really? C'mon. No one bought that. You should know your own junk shot if you saw it, particularly at your age. You should be able to pick yours out of a line up of 1,000 by the time you're 40 years old.
Ugh. Moving on.
