The Sweet Smell of Legitimacy May be Vomit

by Andrew Martin | July 14, 2008 at 12:58 pm

There I was this morning, reading my LA Times over coffee like most New Yorkers, when suddenly I was struck with a bolt of recognition. Nestled among the garbage about the impending war with Iran and the collapse of the US economy was a brilliant opinion piece about Facebook by IvyGate's very own editors, Maureen O'Connor and Jacob Savage! Did they plug IvyGate? Do Yale kids season their steak with cocaine?

Our intrepid editors come to the happy conclusion that all those incriminating photos of us on the internet won't actually be much of a problem because there will be incriminating photos of EVERYONE doing EVERYTHING. Not mentioned in the piece is the notion that, God forbid, one NOT post pictures of oneself drunkenly screwing a dog, but at this point, it's probably fair to accept heedless exhibitionism as the natural order of things and work our way out from there.

The full article, including a disquisition on the morality of printing salacious, though possibly irrelevant material, is after the jump.

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