Can we all acknowledge a debt to Rep. Anthony Weiner for providing the kind of crisis management case study that will make PR instructors’ lives easier for generations to come?

That’s it for our 2011 retrospective, except for two cartoons that never made it beyond the really rough draft stage. Here’s one about Kenneth Cole’s ill-fated Arab Spring tweet (the caption would have made it clear that this is any CEO speaking, because this guy doesn’t look a thing like Cole):

And this one was going to be about Facebook’s new Timeline feature:

Except that I realized it was actually just a take on this brilliant tweet from during Mark Zuckerberg’s demo back in September:

https://twitter.com/heyitsphil/status/116928096485113859

And that’s that, folks – now go do some funny stuff so I have things to draw this time next year.