• by Erik Sass , Staff Writer @eriksass1, June 2, 2011

New York State's Representatives seem unable to stop sending nudie pics of themselves to women they've never met on the Internet. Back in February I wrote about the antics of Rep. Christopher Lee, the Republican Representative from the 26^th District in upstate New York, who went looking for love online with such stupidity that he deserved his own column. Now, in the interests of bipartisan fairness I must heap scorn and mockery on Anthony Weiner, the Democratic Representative from New York's 9^th District, who accidentally broadcast a photo of his "junk" to the entire world through Twitter.

Yes, yes, he still denies that's what happened -- but if you believe the whole story about some still-unnamed "prankster" hacking into his Twitter account, I have a bridge in Brooklyn which is a great investment opportunity. Invoking Occam's Razor ("all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the most likely") I will point out that Weiner is a male politician -- a subset of humanity which has never needed help incriminating itself with sex-related hijinks. It's, like, what they do.

The best part comes afterwards, when the poor dumb horndogs try to weasel their way out of the traps they made for themselves. Typically there is a gradual, excruciating retreat from earlier assertions of innocence as new evidence piles up piece by piece. In Weiner's case it's especially amusing to see him forced to confront the photographic record, as he refuses to confirm or deny that the picture is of Anthony Jr. Without offending the sensibilities of our more delicate readers, I will merely join Jon Stewart in saying that is really the crowning absurdity of this whole situation. If you can't recognize that, you'd probably debate what the meaning of "is" is.

Finally, I'd like to draw the attention of straight male readers to a column in the Washington Post -- "Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy" -- pointing out that, contrary to what our legislators seem to think, most women say they're not aroused by close-up crotch shots. Knowing is half the battle, guys.

And as a post-script, here's some good advice from Fox News about how not to get yourself into a similar scrape.