admitted responsibility in 1999, writing, "I run a reader-participation contest every Sunday in The Post. It is called The Style Invitational." He claimed credit again in 2001, acknowledging that he was editor of The Style Invitational. In 2005, one of Weingarten's in-house critiques was leaked online, where he said The Post was suffering a failure of imagination. Selected passages were later re-posted on his column. Weingarten hosted a popular Washington Post online chat called "Chatological Humor," formerly known as "Tuesdays with Moron." Common topics in his online chat include the art of comic strips, analysis of humor, politics, philosophy, medicine, and gender differences. Many of his columns addressing gender differences have been written in a he-said, she-said style in collaboration with humorist Gina Barreca, his co-author for I'm with Stupid. It was during one of these chats he coined the phrase "Marrying Irving.". His last chat at the Post was November 3, 2020, where he revealed that Chatalogical Humor had been cancelled, partially or wholly due to his public criticism of the Post's rollout of their new online chat software the previous week. In 2007, for one of his "Below the Beltway" columns, he humorously enhanced his Wikipedia entry until he was caught and the edits reverted. In his live online chat on June 22, 2009, Weingarten disclosed that he had accepted a buyout offer from The Washington Post, which meant he was retiring as a longer-form feature writer. The frequency of his online chat was reduced from weekly to monthly, although he provides weekly updates. His column will continue under a contract with The Post but he will no longer contribute feature-length articles. , he was semi-retired from the paper, working on other projects. In the September 26, 2021 Washington Post Magazine, he wrote his last humor column titled “The Short Goodbye.”, and in a followup comment, noted that he was not retiring, just discontinuing his regular column. However, Gene announced via Twitter on December 8, 2021, that he and the Post could not come to terms on a new contract, and he was no longer writing for them. His final story was "A Dog’s Life: Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs? My search to understand a hidden scourge". The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life. And Death Weingarten is a self-acknowledged hypochondriac. He was diagnosed with what was then a near-fatal infection of Hepatitis C, which