"the annals of weaseldom"—excoriation perfected

Between Gail Collins and Maureen Dowd (their acidic turns of phrase doubtless fueled by the subject matter of male infidelity), I doubt if anyone could have more perfectly nailed the execrable John Edwards to the cross better. In NYT of 8/9, Collins writes that his behavior represents "a new high in the annals of weaseldom" while in her 8/10 column, Dowd notes that his infidelity was "oncologically correct" coming as it did after his wife's cancer had gone into remission and before it had returned. Their two columns summed up all the ugliness of the events and homed in on their target with richly deserved opprobrium.