Steve Gilliard comes down pretty hard on Jessica Cutler, aka Washingtonienne, author of the explicit weblog with details of her life as an staff assistant to Republican Senator Mike DeWine-details which included her making as much money as she could in exchange for sex from men she met at his office--"dates" that she says were set up by his staff.

Jessica's blog (short for "Web log") was the online diary she had been posting anonymously to amuse herself and her closest girlfriends. In it, she detailed the peccadilloes of the men she said were her six current sexual partners, including a married Bush administration official who met her in hotel rooms and gave her envelopes of cash; a senator's staff member who helped hire her, then later bedded her; and another man who liked to spank and be spanked.

....Jessica was officially fired for misusing an office computer, but the men she wrote about kept their jobs. What they lost was their privacy. Jessica's blog identified them only by their initials. But amateur Internet sleuths who read the blog searched electronic databases looking for likely suspects, then posted names and photographs on the Internet. Jessica still refuses to name the men publicly.

I think Steve is missing the bigger story here. It's not Jessica at all. Why isn't the mainstream media all over the committee staffer who used his connections with the senator--and even worse, the senator's office staff--to arrange paid-for trysts with a young staffer? He, and the others detailed in Jessica's diary, should be the ones wearing the scarlet "A."

Here's Jessica:

You will also be able to view Jessica this fall in Playboy. At least she got a nice book deal out of the mess. After that, who knows? Outside the beltway, she's not a story. So, while she may never work in Washington-town again, there's always Montana. Or L.A. Or, Nevada... she might want to hook up with Heidi Fleiss, who has big plans to start a legal brothel in a building that is a replica of the White House. Fox's Rita Cosby got the story: