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Grassley Wants Proof That National Science Foundation Is No Longer Porn Hotbed

Republican porn.Employees of the National Science Foundation are the luckiest people alive, because apparently they make buckets of money to look at porn all day, i.e., “promote the progress of science.” Or so says Chuck Grassley, an Iowa senator obsessed with two things: government waste and toilet seats. Apparently for a while there NSF employees spent their days happily downloading pornography to government servers, until eventually some buzzkills got wise and installed filtering software of some sort. Grassley wants to make sure these terrible pornographers’ days of looking at porn instead of promoting science are behind them before they get more bailout money. Grassley is a terrible prude. [Politico]


9:38 AM on Wed January 28 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Mighty Rex says at 9:42 am, January 28th, 2009

    It’s just no fun to be in gubbermint no mo. Maybe there are a few open jobs in Iceland?

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 9:44 am, January 28th, 2009

    If that gif that SKS posted is what this newfangled thingamaggy 3D pr0n is going to look like, well, I’ll stick to old fashioned 2D pr0n.

    Note to Grassley. Nerds need to get some too.

  3. hrhkingfriday says at 9:45 am, January 28th, 2009

    Oh hey. The NSF is across the street from my apt, and I always wondered why they were “working” so late. NOW I KNOW!

  4. Johnny Thompson says at 9:46 am, January 28th, 2009

    God damn that picture! I thought we wouldn’t see it again after the inauguration.

  5. Bypartizoa says at 9:46 am, January 28th, 2009

    They were looking at porn because they were bored. Remember, Bush didn’t believe in science.

  6. Grassley just wants to know who’s getting some because he ain’t getting any!

  7. BillyClubb says at 9:49 am, January 28th, 2009

    Who doesn’t look at porn while at work?! Wait, is that why I have no job…

  8. In one particularly egregious case, the report says one NSF “senior official” was discovered to have spent as much as 20 percent of his working hours over a two-year interval “viewing sexually explicit images and engaging in sexually explicit online ‘chats’ with various women.”

    Darn it, they’re heterosexual.

  9. Noodle Salad says at 9:52 am, January 28th, 2009

    NSF Workers = NSFW. The Washington acronym climate is enabling these folks.

  10. Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul says at 9:52 am, January 28th, 2009

    That ménage à trois of McCains is still one of the most disturbing images I’ve seen in the Web. Should you guys rename the GOP as “lemon party”?

  11. BillyClubb says at 9:53 am, January 28th, 2009

    Bypartizoa: You Win!

  12. What happened to the blood-oath not to link to Politico? Or was that not taken at the editorial level, or taken under the influence? Their headlines today are particularly soul deadening.

  13. DoctorCulturae says at 9:56 am, January 28th, 2009

    cal: So let’s recap, an administration utterly guts the authority of a central intellectual discipline and the ones entrusted in its progress are so bored they spend their time engaged in online dreaming. Shocking.

  14. freakishlystrong says at 9:56 am, January 28th, 2009

    I will never, ever stop giggling at that picture, it’s second only to the Zoolander gif of yore.

  15. gambypants says at 9:57 am, January 28th, 2009

    best mccain porno gif ever.

    http://www.charlietueats.com

  16. President Beeblebrox says at 9:57 am, January 28th, 2009

    That photo is the single most disturbing thing I’ve seen since the photoshopped Sarah Palin/flag bikini/gun pix.

  17. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 10:01 am, January 28th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: That was photoshopped?

  18. Mild Midwesterner says at 10:03 am, January 28th, 2009

    Though I may be posting this a couple weeks too late, here’s a helpful link for you pervs out there: http://www.nsf.gov/about/career_opps/

  19. bitchincamaro says at 10:04 am, January 28th, 2009

    Hard drives will be probed.

  20. magic titty says at 10:06 am, January 28th, 2009

    I thought Politico was banned?

  21. bitchincamaro says at 10:10 am, January 28th, 2009
  22. magic titty: Not if it involves porn, obvs.

  23. actor212 says at 10:11 am, January 28th, 2009

    I’m sure they were just studying primitive culutural mating rituals and identifying those practices that would fall within sodomy statutes.

    Carefully.

  24. Gayer Than Thou says at 10:14 am, January 28th, 2009

    Speaking of porn, why are there so many pictures of McCain giving the cunilingus tongue? Was I not paying enough attention to the debates during the campaign?

  25. freakishlystrong says at 10:16 am, January 28th, 2009

    bitchincamaro:*hissesThat One..

  26. shanemacgowan says at 10:23 am, January 28th, 2009

    “like the employee who learned of a co-worker’s adventures in porn via sounds overheard from said co-worker’s computer speakers.”

    The guy (assuming it was a guy) who let porn play over his computer’s speakers while at work probably should not have been working for the NSF.

    Oh, and thank you, Bypartizoa:

  27. Serolf Divad says at 10:25 am, January 28th, 2009

    OK, here’s my proposal for a new slogan:

    National Science Foundation: We put the NSF in NSFW.

  28. Actually, it was all just a bunch of rejected PETA Super Bowl ads.

  29. masterdebater says at 10:48 am, January 28th, 2009

    What’s the plus/minus on days until Chuck is caught in an airport restroom with a male hooker?

  30. Godot: And Wonkette.

  31. AliBabaInBA says at 11:00 am, January 28th, 2009

    The McCain image is an effective and AMA approved DDD*.
    Though, I’m pretty sure the APA would prefer it banned.

    * Discharge Deterrence Device

  32. Toomush Infermashun says at 11:03 am, January 28th, 2009

    Since porn is 60% of the internet and 78% of our economy, it’s only right that scientists should be poring over it night and day, ….Grassley can go suck Boehner’s package….

  33. Swampwitch says at 11:06 am, January 28th, 2009

    Surfing porn on the NSF’s dime got me through graduate school. Between the porn and the heavy drinking, advanced science is a breeding ground for Wonkette commenters.

    Also. The heavy drinking, violent sex jokes and Wonkette are now getting me through being a postdoc.

  34. DoctorCulturae says at 11:08 am, January 28th, 2009

    gambypants: The only thing better/worse would be if it was Dame Nooningtonshire. (please no!)

  35. Porn is so last week. They ought to be wasting on that work time on political blogs, instead. God knows I do.

  36. magic titty: That was merely a minor tantrum by Newell. Wonkette links to Drudge, after all, who’s comparatively far worse.

    In conclusion: IZ IN UR POLITICOS LINKIN UR DRIVELS

  37. sarahconnor says at 11:44 am, January 28th, 2009

    Mild Midwesterner: mmmm, special emphasis programs… all positions.

  38. Mr Blifil says at 11:49 am, January 28th, 2009

    This post is the thinnest excuse on record to use the McCain Cerebrus. Keep up the outstanding work.

  39. contentsunderpressure says at 11:56 am, January 28th, 2009

    That gif makes the urine pour from my tear ducts. For realz!

  40. Mr Blifil says at 11:57 am, January 28th, 2009

    Toomush Infermashun: Spot on. Any responsible Stimulus Package should include pole-dancing and dick-measuring contests throughout the largest 10 cities. We don’t want to miss any diamonds in the rough among the available pool of talent. Then taxpayer funds could be used to stage the most massive porn placement program ever conceived in the public sector. With such a program we could ensure that every imaginable cultural phenomenon is represented by a parallel porn incarnation. It’s what FDR would have done. The Federal Pornography Administration will create jobs!

  41. it was voted one of the best places to work in 2007…

  42. ThreeFirstNames says at 12:12 pm, January 28th, 2009

    mccain pr0n ftw

  43. One Yield Regular says at 1:24 pm, January 28th, 2009

    Alright, which one of you numbskulls said the words “stimulus package” within earshot of Charles Grassley, hunh? If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times…

  44. Hobgobbler says at 1:52 pm, January 28th, 2009

    please, please, please never use that picture again

  45. They blinded me with SCIENCE! An furious masturbation, also.

  46. Toomush Infermashun says at 2:09 pm, January 28th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: Yes! The FPA or Pubic Works Program, as it may be known, is clearly our best hope for future stimulus!…

  47. twingonaut says at 3:47 pm, January 28th, 2009

    saradc: Obviously!

  48. Dean Booth says at 5:36 pm, January 28th, 2009

    Scientists were the first to popularize porn with their National Geographic magazine. Them and Mr. Robuck.

  49. sanantonerose says at 6:04 pm, January 28th, 2009

    *lick lick lick* Needs more salt.

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