Robert Milder and Anthony Weiner: What Were They Thinking?

What goes on in the mind of Anthony Weiner when he posts lewd pictures then claims that his Twitter account had been hacked?

What goes on in the mind of Robert Milder when he ignores the fact that I used far more of Melville's marginalia than anyone had ever done--that I used his Spenser marginalia before anyone else saw it, that I had early access at an auction gallery to his Milton marginalia, that I had early access at an auction gallery to his Vasari marginalia, that the owner kindly let me have access to the extremely important marginalia in Hazlitt's LECTURES long before anyone else used those volumes, that I built an entire dramatic chapter on marginalia?

Here is what Milder said: "Still less has Parker given himself to addressing Melville's intellectual life, amply recorded not only in his writing but in the reading marginalia through which . . . he conducted his ongoing self education. When so few primary materials exist for knowing the man, it is odd that Parker should neglect this richly provocative resource, which others have explored with important results."

Was Milder thinking that he was so mighty that he could get away with anything? Was Weiner thinking that he was so mighty that he could get away with anything?