OK, can we stop hearing about Anthony Weiner already? Yeah, yeah, it was funny for a couple of days, but it’s stopped being funny now, and he’s gone (hoist by his own petard, so to speak. OK, that was the last one), so enough already. As Josh Marshall wrote yesterday (and as echoed by 92-yr old “Esther” who said “[p]eople get away with worse…. Everybody has hangups”):

I get that it’s icky and makes people cringe. But c’mon. I’ve been following congressional scandals for 15 years. And my God in the grand scheme of things this is pretty silly compared to the levels of wrongdoing, thievery and vicious behavior we’ve all seen. And that disconnect — the most insistent and open demands for resignation ever compared to one of the silliest scandals ever — just doesn’t sit right with me. Especially when, last time we checked at least, his constituents did not want him to resign.

So, anyway, enough already.

Father’s Day is coming up this weekend. Unlike Mother’s Day, this is a Hallmark Holiday whose importance ranks about even with Columbus Day. However, should you be inclined to celebrate, I have it on good authority that Dad wants a backhoe for his tractor this year. Actually, he wants a mini-excavator, but he understands that, while he scrimped and saved and deprived himself so you could have the very best, you’re an ungrateful little wretch who probably won’t even bother to call, let alone get him something that isn’t useless (if you get him anything at all).

One kid who won’t have to worry about Father’s Day is Michael Gallow, who yesterday plead guilty yesterday to shooting his father “between the eyes” back in March.

All things considered, I guess a tie wouldn’t be so bad after all.

But before you ignore your poor old man (or you poor old men out there get ignored yourselves), we have to get through today. And if today is like the rest of this week, it’s gonna suck.

Oh, and back on this date in 1967, “Respect” was the #1 song.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T. This hat sure looks dumb on me….