NAMES & FACES (washingtonpost.com)
Stop the presses! Or should we say start the presses? Washingtonienne, that 26-year-old infamous former Hill staffer who grabbed everyone's attention by blogging each nitty-gritty detail of her sexual escapades with six men, not only has a six-figure book deal anchored with Hyperion Disney, but the rumor that she'll be posing for Playboy mag is true, too! (November issue, for those interested.)
The Post's Reliable Source has the background on 26-year-old Jessica Cutler, a.k.a. Washingtonienne. Her Senate boss chose a creative legal angle when he fired her; apparently she was discharged for misuse of government property because she was blogging on a Senate computer. In a way, it is odd that the Senator gave her a reason; I would have thought that a Senate staff job would be at-will, and that a Senate staffer could be fired for any reason or no reason at all.
It is remarkable not only how much attention this story has garnered, but how much anger it has generated, as evidenced by comments on the Wizbang weblog.