[Cicero]

Why don’t Bammy & Harry start a new federal agency, the Department of Porn Watchers? Federal bureaucrats could move over to the new agency without losing any of their vacation time, retirement benefits, or other perks.

That way they could keep a close watch on porn and make sure that it was fair and balanced.

[andyk]

where the individual was so valuable that people didn’t want to fire them

Holy crap. No one is irreplaceable.

[subterfuge]

So who’s getting fired?

Nobody. It was a trick question.

[wbarmy]

This has been going on for awhile. All of the Federal agencies except for DoD have this problem. (DoD will kill our security clearance and throw us out on our fourth point of contact). Of course there are always defenders, if we cut their funding no science will get done in the U.S. (sarc)

http://www.science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/29/1430259/Porn-Surfing-Rampant-At-US-Science-Foundation

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1289

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2009/01/will-porn-searches-cost-scientists-3-billion/

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/05/27/why-the-gop-hates-the-national-science-foundation/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/porn-surfing-rampant-at-u_n_303452.html

[scbison]

umm, I work at GSA and never saw the email. If you are inside GSA firewall, it blocks anything with questionable content. The guys must have been surfing before logging into gsa and thought he was okay.. moron.