Better Jolt to the System than Caffeine

on friday, i needed a brain break. numbers were swimming in front of my eyes; eyes that were open only because of the caffeine, but nothing was going on in the brain back office. boss was asking me questions but i am staring blankly back and unable to even form the sentence - let me get back to you on that. i decide i need a brain break so i mosey on down to see the headlines on msnbc. i read that a congressman has resigned over emails. i am thinking - abramoff - wow, that guy was really free with the emails. rolling my eyes and shaking my head, i keep on reading, expecting the usual campaign finance reform, lobbyist yada yada. instead i get hit with this - congressman foley resigned suddenly over news that he had sent emails to a 16 year-old page.

a page? what is this? buckingham palace? a page? what, do we now have a king george??

and then i am just floored - it wasn't the first time. apparently this 52 year-old representative has in the past sent "sexually suggestive" instant messages to other pages.

examples of messages include:
"you in your boxers, too? ... well, strip down and get naked." and
"do i make you a little horny" (i guess he has been watching austin powers movies).
so i am reading all of this catching flies with my jaw-dropped face. i am thinking, wow, this is awful. but i am only half way through the article. what more is there to say?

congressman foley was chairman of the missing and exploited children's caucus and, get this, introduced legislation in july to protect children from exploitation by adults over the internet (do you think he voted against it?). he is quoted as saying "we track library books better than we do sexual predators."

apparently.