That's the primary lesson I'm taking from this bizarre Anthony Weiner affair: it's personal and private, and whenever it's made public, it simply makes all the participants look silly. It's definitely not an intellectual process, as this reading of his steamy exchanges reveals.
I don't endorse Weiner's behavior at all, but still, it makes me want to see Maher's pillow talk revealed and expressed in public. Just to be mean.
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