Anthony Weiner: It's Over

American hero Andrew Breitbart (link by way of Ace of Spades HQ) puts the final nail in the coffin of United States Congressman Anthony Weiner's political career.

I'm not happy or satisfied. It's disgusting and disgraceful that this weasely, wimpish turd reached the lofty levels he did. Hopefully he will resign in the next 24 hours and we will be done with his ugly face and sociopathic tendencies once and for all.

OK, I lied. The real reason I'm not happy is because these chest shots unfortunately confirm (or render as highly likely) that the bulging member we have previously seen does in fact belong Weiner. I've now seen Anthony Weiner's alleged erection. That is a turn of events I would not wish upon anyone. We are all losers for becoming mired in his sick sexual predation games.

Show Me Your Weiner!

It's the best story of a long holiday weekend that the mainstream media won't be telling you about. An outspoken and brash Democratic Congressman from New York City, connected by marriage to the Clintons and reportedly positioning himself for a run at Mayor in 2013, sends a picture of "a man's" engorged member to a college student from Seattle.

Or his account was hacked. Either way, it's quite the sordid tale. Let's look at the facts.

1) Congressman drops a completely random Seattle reference in a tweet related to a television appearance.

2) Later that evening, a Seattle-area student (who had previously referred to this same Congressman as "her boyfriend") receives a public mention on Twitter that includes the offending photo.

3) The Congressman then casts his account as "hacked," yet also immediately regains access and tweets with abandon right after the incident.

4) Both the photo and the student's entire online social media persona have subsequently been swept down the rabbit hole into oblivion.

Let's assume first that the account was indeed hacked, and that our honorable representative acted with total nobility and honesty. In an age of rampant identity theft and where the President of the United States can reauthorize controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act via e-signature, isn't it of paramount import that our elected leaders have the most secure communications and platforms possible? Surely, the calls will come soon from Representative Weiner for a full investigation by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, right?

Otherwise, by contrast, we have yet another case of a sociopathic individual abusing the powers of elected office for personal, perverse, predatorial sexual gratification. Given how strong and handsome the Congressman appears to be on his Twitter avatar, I know you as shocked as I am, dear reader, with these revelations.

Verum Serum's exhaustive research seems to have uncovered an unhealthy and unwise connection between the Representative's Twitter account and numerous nubile and impressionable young ladies. Meanwhile, Ace of Spades HQ has utterly obliterated the "hack" argument by putting us into knowledge and facts regarding the timeline and likelihood of said hack. And the always-indefatiguable Other McCain links to the systematic elimination of Genette Nicole Cordova from the entirety of the Interwebs.

I think it's safe to assume at this point where the truth falls. Either way, though, Weiner has been uncovered to be an incompetent techno-n00b or a pervert. Not a great Memorial Day weekend for the Congressman from New York.

A Blast From the Past

So, apparently after all of these years, my LiveJournal still exists in all of its pristine, holiday-themed form. Who knew?

Looking back at those salad days of 2004-2005, it's clear that my writing style has...pretty much not evolved at all. Posts are still filled with lots of lengthy, complex-clause-riddled sentences and links to places such as Ace of Spades HQ and the original pre-beta-male AllahPundit. But the TSL that authored those posts was in, some ways, a very different man. My writing is tinged with a fatalistic paranoia and references to my shrink, an indication of how badly I still suffered from heightened anxiety in the years after 9/11. It also often details my preferred escape of the time -- comics. The fantastical stories and mostly happy endings took me back to my childhood, a purely escapist fare to help me forget the sheer terror I felt in each and every waking (and sleeping) moment.

Still, there were good times. The Blog of TSL was where, via syndication, I prodded a certain erstwhile Cranky Conservative to begin his own blogging journey. It was also the first place I ever got linked to -- from Ace -- and also allowed me to make some decent blog friends at the time, such as Hans Brix (whatever happened to that guy?).

As to what's missing, well, its also weird to read it now and see it devoid of comments from a certain all-around blog groupie and best friend the first incarnation of Geek Soap Box would later bring me. And that is, still, the one thing that made this whole writing experience all so worthwhile.

Anyway, I am going to attempt to import some of these posts into Wordpress, so if you see anything weird happening with my RSS feed in the next few days, now you know why.