Well, three days later and we have a real reason emerge. Nicely done. But see - for three days or whatever - all we've had are prick jokes and tsk tsk tsking.
And I still do not buy that the internet is some sort of public microphone or public audience forum. He didn't whip it out at the State of the Union.
It's a photo. R rated at worst... Sent from a PRIVATE communications terminal to another one.
Yes, it's open for people to view - but that's also the equivalent of standing on a box, with a high power flashlight and looking in your neighbor's window - and calling the cops at the OUTRAGE you have just seen.
Why are we ceding the idea that everything and anything in anyone's life is a PUBLIC matter? It wasn't this way in the (glorious) 1950s and 1960s.
Even a man's affairs were considered private matters.
I do not like where this leads one bit. First step is to claim that everything a public worker does is EVERYONE'S business - then the next step is the control of what privately employed people can do in their off time.
This is a steep, steep razor sharp slope with a pool of alcohol at the bottom. (And no New England Senators....)
If it was sent from a PRIVATE communcations terminal to another one, the whole world wouldn't know about it.