Viewing Porn for Humanity

An audit investigating grant fraud at the taxpayer-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) had to be curtailed due to widespread problems identified with employee misconduct, frequently involving workers accessing pornography on government computers.

One senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.

When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.

"He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo.

Maybe Gallup should do a poll to see how many people buy this porn viewer's explanation. I sure don't.

In any event, I suspect that federal and state bureaucracies are infested with people who do little or nothing to earn a paycheck. Porn viewing probably competes with game-playing as time consumers.