Weinergate

Really, this is not worth writing about.  A tempest in a teapot.  Much ado about nothing.

Also, I am not the most qualified person to write about it.  I’ve never used Twitter and don’t really

Right wing blogger Andrew Breitbart is going nuts over Weiner's alleged weiner

have a very good idea of how it works.  If you want to know the truth, I am a rather extreme technophobe.  I’ve learned how to write a blog because I love writing, but I don’t know how to use photoshop and have no idea how to hack into somebody else’s Twitter or email accounts.  Therefore, when I see people saying “That was an obvious hack job” or “they didn’t even do a good job of it” I have no idea what they’re basing that on.

Basically, I just want to make juvenile jokes like “Weiner’s weiner” and “Weinergate”, and to show the stupid picture, because why the hell not?

I don’t want to blog about what a ridiculously hot day it was, or how I got lost in the wilds of Prague 8 this morning (I love this city.  I’ve lived here 12 years and I still get completely lost sometimes and it’s always a surprise, I was looking for a pre-school at the end of a housing complex and found myself wandering through a forest) or about Sam’s football game, which they won by about 26 or 30 to 4, it was kind of boring and even though Sam was in the goal, I was relieved when the other kids finally scored because I was getting embarrassed for them.

So, the story is this.  Congressperson Anthony Weiner, who is generally one of the good guys but has that unfortunate name (it’s actually a fairly common Jewish name, it means “from Vienna,” which is also the origin of the word for hot dog, and it has only come to mean penis because sausages and penises are the same shape – I suppose one could also say “pickle” or “pencil” but, whatever, we say weiner) sent a tweet (or didn’t) to a young lady, and the tweet was a picture of a man’s underwear, sporting sort of a half hard-on.

Weiner says he’d never do such a thing, his account was hacked, and actually, I believe him.  Not because politicians are more moral and upright than ex-Green Bay quarterbacks, but because Weiner is generally a pretty intelligent guy and this just has the stink of stupid all over it.  I kind of suspect Jimmy O’Keefe, because it’s his style.

In any event, I do hope there is a thorough investigation.  If it’s proved that Weiner DID send the message, then he’s not who I thought he was.  If it’s proved that he was hacked and they can find the hacker, then they can send the hacker to jail.  Where he’ll get more weiner than he bargained for.