In re the Anthony Weiner resignation: in the chorus of calls for his resignation, there was one voice conspicuously absent from the national conversation — Chuck Schumer’s. Normally the kind of camera hound that put his protege to shame, the senior senator from New York was amazingly quiet, like the “dog in the night-time” in “Silver Blaze,” and lifted not a finger to save his own personal mini-me. Talk about the sound of silence.

Where is Sherlock Holmes when we need him?