David Cay Johnston is a reporter for the New York Times who has written many articles about the IRS and the US tax system.  Heck he’s written books about taxes, so imagine my surprise when I saw that he wrote an article titled Is Live Sex On-Demand Coming to Hotel TVs? I can imagine some other reportorial combinations that might make more sense, like say taxes and celebrity obituaries (death and taxes, get it?), but sex and taxes?  He’s also written an article titled Indications of a Slowdown in Sex Entertainment Trade so I’m guessing he’s bringing the same in-depth research to porn that he does to taxes.

Oh, wait he has written an obituary so I guess my death and taxes idea wasn’t too far off.

I’m wondering if Lex is looking to start covering the sex trade.  He spent years covering religion so it wouldn’t be much of a stretch (insert Catholic priest or Jimmy Swaggart mention here).   I wonder if JR would let him?  I’m thinking it might be a good way to kick start the News & Record’s multimedia ambitions.  I can pretty much guarantee you that they’ll be beating WXII to the punch, as it were. And maybe he can get some video tips from Lenslinger.  And what the heck, I guess I can step up and help with the research.

Last thought on this tangent: when staying in a hotel always, ALWAYS, sanitize the remote before you use it, or at least wash your hands vigorously after using it.  You really don’t want to know where it’s been.