Tragedy defined

Thanks alot BlackBerry! Because you suck and decided to f*** up royally yesterday, I missed out on the booty call/email of a lifetime!

Yesterday's lack of crack(berry) reminded me of a certain day during my time working on the Hill, when then-Minority Leader Harry Reid went Rule XXI on some bitches and called a secret session. During this Secret Senate Sesh, all the senators had to turn over their BlackBerries and lesser cell phones (seriously, you think some old fart like Senator Robert Byrd knows how use a 'berry?) due to the strict confidentiality rule. All the peeps in my office went crazy because they couldn't email the senator to find out what was up. Heaven forbid - they might not be able to tell him how to vote on something!

I seriously wish I could have been a fly on the wall at any given congressional office building yesterday.

Prostitution? That's illegal, right?

One thing noticibly absent from The Head Pelican is commentary on the Vitter scandal. We don't have any good excuses for this oversight, like that ALTR might have a VIP job in Vitter's constituent office, and therefore is not inclined to comment. No, I'm not that important. ALTL and ALTR simply are new to this blog thing - the Vitter scandal "broke" when ALTR was in the middle of a busy work week. Or a serious bender. But, whatever the reason, I promise to be more on top of my game.

Nevertheless, ALTR reserved the right to make random comments on the scandal, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comments on the accusations shortly after they came out, stopping short of calling for an ethics investigation of the senator. According to this article on nola.com, Sen. Reid, a lawyer, needs a refresher course in what's illegal. Like prositution.

"There are a lot of accusations about...prostitutes in Louisiana. I don't know if that's breaking the law or not." - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

Maybe that's why we're having trouble getting money from the feds down here - they still think we condone prostitution.