It’s not that often that Pauly Platy­pus gets two juicy news items in one day, but this is one of those days.

Sarah Palin just re-​​wrote a lit­tle bit more his­tory. Appar­ently — stop me if you knew this already — Paul Revere’s 1775 ride was all about defend­ing the Sec­ond Amend­ment rights of Amer­i­cans, even though they didn’t get around to actu­ally writ­ing, you know, the Con­sti­tu­tion until 1789. (And that was before they amended it.)

Brooke Bald­win of CNN makes this clip priceless:

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As you’re prob­a­bly aware, we at Log­a­rchism are deter­mined to cover the hard polit­i­cal news. This is cer­tainly no exception.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-​​NY) has got­ten into some hot water for a photo of his name­sake’s out­line vis­i­ble through his under­wear. While I’m in no posi­tion to assess whether it’s truly a tony weiner, let alone whether it’s Tony’s weiner, it does raise a cou­ple of prob­ing questions.

First, was his Twit­ter account really hacked? It’s cer­tainly not hard to do, since most peo­ple have eas­ily deter­mined pass­words. If you’re a promi­nent politi­cian, you’re far more likely to be hacked sim­ply because you have more peo­ple tar­get­ing you in particular.

Sec­ond, why the non-​​denial denial? Yes­ter­day he told NBC that he couldn’t say “with cer­ti­tude” that it’s not him. Do there exist pic­tures of this sort of the Rep­re­sen­ta­tive from New York? This may be the sem­i­nal ques­tion, as there could be a leak in a staff member.

At least he hasn’t demon­strated any testi­ness over the ker­fuf­fle. If any­thing, he has risen to the occa­sion. But it would be help­ful if he would sim­ply come clean about it.

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