Morning Porn

During the 2004 election season, my morning email contained, regularly, dozens, if not tens of dozens, politics-related spam. Mass-generated "letters to the editor," "op-eds," RNC newsletters, DNC missives, Moveon.org updates etc. I had not, to my knowledge, requested or signed up for any of this, although I admit I was somewhat fascinated by this weird punditized ghost in the machine. I would sleep at night and in the morning, dozens of opinions awaited me. None of which were really worth reading, but still. My other observation, at the time, was that the political spammage's arrival had coincided with the disappearance of what had previously been an overabundance of regular old porn spam. And I mean like heavy duty porn spam every morning (it never arrives after 10 am; porn spammers, like pundits, apparently work nights). Given a choice, I'd rather face opining by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth with my morning coffee than farm girls getting it hard (or whatever), although some mornings it is a bit of a toss up. Anyway, the election came and went and, lo and behold, the political spams have all but disappeared and the regular kind is back. With a vengeance. Now, I know you're thinking to yourself: "Is this girl brain dead? Spam block you fool." And normally I would agree with you, except that as the recipient of other mass-mailed items that I actually need (like press releases etc), spam blocks can be dangerous. I know, having employed them once for a month and managed to miss half the mail I needed to see. Spam blockers, at least the one I've got, are not sophisticated enough to differentiate between pornography and press releases from the governor's office. Which should tell you something.
OK, it's early. I've got two new interns to meet with and train, a cover story to read, allergies to battle, a publisher and a budget to contend with, dogs to walk, people to see, blah, blah, blah. Back later. If you need me, I'll be looking at porn. (Note to federal agents reading this blog: that was a joke. I delete the porn immediately and it's not my fault I've been targeted by pornographers).