Newt Gingrich, Anthony Weiner; Anthony Weiner, Newt Gingrich

You'd think that Representative Philanderer would bail for good after several campaign staffers decided not to jump the shark with him, but no: his reasons for not doing so just got even loopier. And as for that other guy, no, either.

You seriously can't make this stuff up, folks. Unfortunately, you can't make up people like Eric Cantor either, as much as you'd like him to only be a fictional character instead of something that actually exists outside your imagination.

And now, some 24,000 pages of crap you'll be glad you didn't have to help slog through

Although I haven't had to mention Governor Quitter for months (I was one of the people who said I wouldn't post about her through February, and I decided she wasn't worth it even after she butchered the Paul Revere story or when her servile nebbishes tried to scrub Wikipedia for her again), I suppose this is where the grammatically challenged reality TV star makes an unpleasant comeback in WTTFTG since the emails are now out:

Once the state reviewed the records, it gave Palin's attorneys an opportunity to see if they had any privacy concerns with what was being released. No emails were withheld or redacted as a result of that, said Linda Perez, Parnell's administrative director in charge of coordinating the release. (...)

She (Palin) and top aides were known to communicate using private email accounts. Perez said Palin gave the state a CD with emails from her Yahoo account, and other employees were asked to review their private accounts for emails related to state business and to send those to their state accounts.

Another 2,275 pages are being withheld for reasons including attorney-client, work product or executive privilege; an additional 140 pages were deemed to be "non-records," or unrelated to state business.

Some emails may have been previously reviewed in other, earlier public records requests, such as in the Troopergate investigation, in which Palin was accused of putting pressure on public safety officials to fire her brother-in-law, an Alaska State Trooper who was going through a bitter divorce from Palin's sister.

My guess is that all of this will be yet more of the predictable tripe we've come to expect from Gov. Quitter, unless something slipped out in this gargantuan mess that can actually be considered an admission of illegality concerning Troopergate or something else. If this was any other high-profile former pol, I'd expect that answer to be "no". But this is Palin we're talking about, and that means the weirdness factor may very well be off the charts when all is said and done.