Give It Away Now

What does the Pentagon do when confronted with the widespread use of a potentially incriminating technology? It bans it, of course. Under new military regulations, digital cameras, camcorders, and phonecams are now verboten in Iraq. Not surprising, given that new photographs of prisoner abuse are turning up on an almost daily basis, but I have serious doubts about whether this ban can be easily enforced. There must be thousands of digicams and phonecams bouncing around in the pockets and knapsacks of soldiers and civilians alike in every corner of that country. Does the military brass plan on finding and confiscating all of them? I’m willing to wager that we’ll still continue to see unauthorized images leak out of Iraq long after the ban is put in place.
Over on Wonkette’s blog, I’ve been following the saga of the Washingtonienne. For those of you not in the know, the Washingtonienne was a former Senate aide who started a blog; the main topic of said blog was her various sexual exploits with assorted and sundry government officials. The Washingtonienne lost her Senate job once her boss got wind of the blog’s existence. She’ll probably get a book deal or a gig on MTV because of the whole brouhaha. And why not? She doesn’t seem too embarrassed by her conduct and it’s hardly any different than a guy bragging about his conquests. Yet we still have this cultural meme from antebellum times that young women are supposed to be coquettish, or at least discrete. What a bunch of gender-biased crap. She’d probably still have her job if she was a man. I know that if we had been colleagues and by some (major) miracle we had an intimate moment, I’d expect her to write all about it.
That’s it. I’m starting a separate blog about the sexual adventures of a minor government functionary in Minnesota who happens to be disabled. It will recount in lurid detail his freaky-deaky encounters with people in positions of power and the secrets he acquires when others are at their most vulnerable.
Oh, who am I kidding. Nobody would ever believe that shit. Hell, I wouldn’t believe it if I read it.