Back in my day, a man who accidentally tweeted out a pic of his dong to a woman who wasn’t his wife was political suicide. But here we are, less than two years after Anthony Weiner resigned from his seat in Congress in disgrace, and here he is announcing that he’s running for mayor of New York. (This on the heels of former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford running for Congress just a few short years after literally disappearing in office and taking taxpayer funded trips to Argentina to visit his mistress.)

So yeah, Anthony Weiner is running to be mayor of New York City AND His hot wife Huma even makes an appearance in the video. And you know what…his message does resonate! NYC’s middle class is disappearing and it’s becoming a city for rich people exclusively. But, yeah, PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS!!!

“Look, I made some big mistakes. And I know I let a lot of people down,” Weiner says in the video. “But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor ‘cuz I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it my entire life. And I hope I get a second chance to work for you.”

I’m both dreading and looking forward to the penis pun-y headlines in the New York Post for months to come.

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It’s still weird to see Eric Stonestreet in real life and not wearing button-down shirts with paisley cuffs. But alas, here he was telling Jay Leno about his life that he totally has when he’s not on Modern Family (again, it’s weird he has one).

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Not gonna lie, I was skeptical about how good another Superman movie would be mostly because Superman as a character is just so hard to relate to and build a compelling story around. He basically has every power ever and the crappiest rogues gallery around. I mean, his main villain is essentially Donald Trump. So no matter how great a movie looks, I found it hard to get into a Supes flick.

Well color me wrong as hell. Man Of Steel looks like it’s going to kick ass, steal lunch money and not ask for forgiveness. This trailer is called “Fate Of Your Planet” and it’s narrated by Zod. Who beats the dog urine out of Superman, which is nice to watch. If this movie isn’t one of the 23 best flicks of all time, it’ll be a letdown. Seriously, this looks epic in every way possible.

In 2004, Ohio resident and World War II vet John Potter became very ill so he and his wife signed their power of attorney over to their daughter, Janice Cottrill. What they didn’t know is that at some point, Janice signed the deed to her parents’ home over to herself, and earlier this year, she filed an eviction notice to her own father. To make this story even worse, John built the home in question himself when he returned from WWII as a young man, with nothing more than a power shovel that he borrowed.

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If you run over someone with your car, don’t drive away and then brag about it on Twitter. Actually, try not to run over people at all. But if you do, stop your car, assist the person and call an ambulance immediately. Do not do what one young lady in Norwich, England recently did and hit a cyclist with a car, speed away and then brag about the act on Twitter. Because social media vigilantes will hunt you down and make sure that you pay for your crime one way or another.

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Steve Wilhite (pictured above in the monitor of a fan) will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at tonight’s Webby Awards, as his creation of the GIF has made him a god among mere mortals obsessed with animated images on endless loops. Otherwise known as the Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF has become a handy dandy tool for us bloggers in conveying simple messages by using familiar faces an pop culture memes and moments.

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Vine is a relatively recent phenomenon, but we’ve already seen some stellar uses for the social app, including “Children Friendly Rap Songs,” “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal,” and, of course, everything that Community‘s Gillian Jacobs uploads to her account. People, especially comedians (so, “people”), are still figuring out how to use Vine and it could eventually prove to be as much of a game-changer as Twitter.

But I can say with complete confidence that Marlo Meekins’s “Mario Dog” will never be topped.

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Whenever two comedians get into a fight on Twitter, my “FAKE FAKE PUBLICITY STUNT FAKE FAKE” alarm goes off, especially when said comedians recently released books, as Marc Maron and Michael Ian Black did. Then again, Maron and Ian Black aren’t big fans of one another — check out their recent chat on Gothamist as proof. But even if their online squabblings — which began a short time ago when Maron tweteed, “I guess if everything is garbage principles are stupid” and Ian Black responded, “So you watched your show, huh?” — isn’t real, it’s still pretty amusing.

Not recommended for people with daddy “hates himself as much as he loves suits” issues. Might be too real.

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So today Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before a Senate panel to talk about that whole tax thing people have been talking about, and Sen. John McCain, man of the people, asked Cook a question we’d all probably like to ask him.

“Why the hell do I have to keep updating apps on my iPhone all the time?”

Meanwhile, how great would it have been if Cook had replied by asking, “Why the hell did you pick Sarah Palin to be your running mate?!” Pretty great, I think!

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