What Surprises Me?

If the Brett Favre "scandal" wasn't filling enough (and hey, that involved actual questions anyway of sexual harassment on the job), and well-know law professors have to roll around in the dirt because of the latest penis play to hit the news, why the heck not mention that Weiner's wife is the beautiful Pakistani-Indian American who was long rumored to be Hillary Clinton's lesbian lover and perhaps Weiner's in a sham marraige?

That's the same Huma Abedin, right?

And if you want to roll around in the dirt, or sling mud, or whatever the objective of these continued exercises is, why not go in all the way and really dirty yourself?

If you're gonna do it, do it right...

ADDED: People, people... it's an underpants picture. Sheesh, the Puritans in the crowd get this excited about the covered outline of a man's penis clad in grey skivvies? It's like junior high school all over again -- omg! A penis! And not even a naked one, at that. Who knew politicians had actual body parts -- I thought they were all built like Ken. (As I understood it too, there was a lot more going on behind the earlier shirtless man pic. It wasn't the ... nekkid chest (!) that caused him to resign.)

Move along, people... Maybe find yourselves a date with a man this weekend, or ... rediscover your own husbands out there. Yes Virginia, men have penises. And yes too, cybersexxin' is happening in our 21st Century world.

This is pretty tame stuff, the mystery guy in the grey undies. Best keep those smelling salts handy if this tame stuff is thus-far your pinnacle of porn...






Somewhere between the uber-privacy of the French, that allowed them to get away with so much sexually for so long, and the American junior-high-school-gigglefest (or worse, shamefest) that treats as 24-hour, front-page news the allegations that even a married politician might be an online flirt, is a comfortable medium. Discrete, consensual, nobody's-business-if-nobody's-complaining, happy space.

Did you know it's true that married people sometimes have "arrangements" within their partnership? Respectful, acknowledged agreements that don't harm anyone and are agreed to by both parties? Not in the family marraiges* I know, but it's true: they're out there, people. Lighten up and move on. aka, Vive la différence! (Or not, your choice, people.)

I'm inclined to think if poor Anthony's last name were Smith, Beck, Dunn or Schwartz, the news cycle would have moved on already, covering ... actual news that people need to know.

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*Personally, I prefer to sing the Mac Davis version myself, but that's just me. These lyrics linked to say Mac, but clearly the gender mix makes them Anne Murray's lyrics.