The disaster that is Anthony Weiner has, once again, graced the cover of newspapers and internet headlines across the globe.  Why anyone would want to be a public figure at this point is really beyond me.  In the age of the internet and social media, every dumb thing a person has ever done is bound to come to light.  If you are planning to be a public servant, it’s pretty obvious that you should know this and expect that your actions will be scrutinized.

But Anthony Weiner (or should I say Carlos Danger?) takes things to a whole new level of dumb.  Taking photographs and sexting a 23 year old?  Really Anthony? How stupid are you?

Frankly, I don’t care what the man is doing in his personal life.  It’s not my problem. It’s between his wife and him. If she’s okay with it, I’m not going to judge.

But….

This is a guy who resigned from Congress because he was sending explicit photos to women.  This is a guy who went back to a private life where the public stayed out of what he did or whom he sexted.  This is a guy who continued to do the exact same behavior that caused him to resign, and knowing that he was still doing it, put himself back into the spotlight. 

Is this someone who is demonstrating anything that looks like good judgment?  Not so much.

More and more, we are seeing people in high positions with sex scandals.  Some people can apparently get away with it–like Teflon Bill.  Some, like David Petraeus, are smart enough to resign quickly and take themselves away from the public scrutiny as soon as possible.  Others, like Mark Foley, resign after pressure, once they realize that they’ve lost the respect of those around them. 

So far, only Anthony Weiner has shown the lack of judgment to put himself back in the public eye–knowing that he would be under a microscope (a huge, looking-exactly-for-this-kind-of-behavior, microscope) all the while knowing he was still up to the same old thing. At this point, I think I’ve seen enough of him to last a lifetime. 

Haven’t we all?