So This Is What It Feels Like To Be Given A Washington Surprise...

Okay, I consider myself to be about as politically astute as the next person, not to mention at least as jaded as the average twentysomething is supposed to be in this day and age. (Must have been all those teenage years listening to Pearl Jam and Nirvana...) But I'm just going to say for the record that after reading the Rolling Stone report on Congress, even I am left a bit white-faced and reaching to steady myself on the furniture.

For those who have not yet had the pleasure, read it all here. Although, be forwarned, you might want to have some smelling salts and defibrilator handy.

Also, can I just say, WTF?! Rolling Stone? When did we turn to the newsmag that was once the symbol of corruption to point out for us the deficits in the United States government? This was the place that thought progress was making it so that all their office walls would be made of glass so that no star reporter could be secretly doing a line of coke in his office while Grace Jones and Mick Jagger had sex in the corner. That this was the magazine to make congressional corruption a front-page story should be reason enough to be concerned.