You knew it was coming. Some fabulous news organization would assign someone to come up with the Barney Frank YouTube highlights. Here it is at HuffPo. And here HuffPo’s Ryan Grim fondly recalls being chewed out by the honorable member of Congress from Massachusetts, adding a few others’ such memories:

Politico’s Glenn Thrush describes walking the same route to an answer. “Interviewing Barney Frank a 4-step process: 1. Ask question 2. Get told question is stupid/phony/immoral 3. Say ‘yeah, yeah’ 4. Get quote,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, I’ve been having a debate with myself. I know Barney Frank’s picture will soon be in the dictionary. But will it illustrate the word “irascible” or the word “curmudgeon”? Discuss.

E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).