How is this even a thing?

[barbarienne]

Dear Everyone, but most particularly public figures

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[icecreamempress]

Don't send sexy pictures from your business Twitter account (unless you're actually in the sex business) seems like a reasonable baseline.

[barbarienne]

Really! If he were over 60 I might say, "Okay, a lot of folks that age don't fully understand what they're doing on the internet," but he's only what, in his 40s?

[mastadge]

I had a coworker a couple years ago who kept a picture of his erect penis on his cellphone. (I discovered this by accident.) I have often wondered what possible purpose it could serve.

[barbarienne]

This just...well, I don't want to say it fascinates me, but people who would keep racy photos of themselves are very strange to me. I don't need pictures--I've got a mirror.

[lizziebelle]

And with a name like that, you'd think he'd have thought twice about sending it out in a public forum. What a dolt.

[barbarienne]

In fairness, it's a pretty common name in New York (significant Jewish population). In my grammar school we had a science teacher, Mrs. Weiner, and it never occurred to any of us children to make a joke out of it.

[lizziebelle]

He did mention it himself, back when he was still denying he did it. ;)

[barbarienne]

Well, politicians show a similar ability to remember where the payoff or golf junket came from, so they do have a rudimentary Pavlovian response...

[kateelliott]

[barbarienne]

Palin doesn't get a pass. She hasn't done anything sexual. When she's called out on her Stupid, she goes even deeper into her "I didn't do it!" denials. She's about on a par with a petty career criminal in that sense.

Hmmm. We could take it as a sign of a politician having at least a rudimentary sense of intellectual honesty if they eventually do admit they were wrong.

[kateelliott]