He’s a goddamn congressman, which means he should be held to slightly higher standards than homeless men who are forever masturbating in Walmart toy sections, wrestling squirrels and alligators while fucked-up out of their minds, and punching police horses while protecting imaginary girlfriends. Indeed, Grayson should strive to comport himself with at least the modicum of decorum that Internet phenom and 9/11 truther Alex Jones has managed while having Grayson on his show.

Grayson is in the news now for two reasons. The first that he says he’s seriously contemplating a Senate bid. The second is because of a nasty divorce he’s working through with the mother of his five children. Married in 1990, the two had been working on a settlement but a court appearance this week ended poorly. “I’ll sum it up for you,” explained Grayson to local TV reporters immediately after the proceeding. “Gold diggers gotta dig. That’s all I gotta say.”

But it’s not his unseemly statements about his personal affairs that are particularly troubling. He shouldn’t be talking like that, of course, but neither should the press be particularly interested in the personal lives of politicians unless criminality is involved or the matter at hand is directly relevant to their elected office.