In the wake of Weinergate, Salon has an article (written by a woman named Tracy Clark-Flory – I’m aways dubious of people with hyphenated names) this morning asking “why do men take crotch shots?” The answer, of course, is “they don’t.” They don’t any more than couples kidnap young girls and hold them hostage for 18 years or “women” don’t wear panties and flash their crotches to the paparazzi while getting out of limousines (or yearn for artificial insemination so they can have octuplets). Are there weirdos and creeps out there? Certainly. Do they get way, way, WAY too much attention? Yes they do. Of course, Tracy doesn’t say all men do – she says many men do, which is the equivalent of the old “some say…” lazy method of interviewing. Of course, she offers no statistics for this phenomenon, but I suppose that, in a world of a few billion people, “many” is a pretty easy threshold to reach.

As for Anthony, who knows what his deal is? He seems to be reluctant to state that the photo isn’t his – only that he didn’t send it to the person in question. So I’ll take him at his word, since he doesn’t seem like a complete moron (though you never know, I guess). Maybe he likes to keep pictures of himself around to send to his wife. Who knows? But it sounds like Breitbart is involved somehow.

Speaking of not keeping your crotch properly restrained, John Edwards is set to get indicted or something today. It really doesn’t sound like he’s done anything “criminal” to me – just dumb. But we’ll see.

Oh well, it’s been a long week, and I’m glad it’s (almost) over with.