Let he who be without sin cast the first blog

In the matter of local American Idol contestant Antonella Barba's somewhat provocative (and the disputed, if possibly pornographic) photos being plastered all over the Internet, I'd just like to paraphrase George W. Bush: "When you're young and stupid, you're young and stupid.''
I know I was. There just weren't cameras everywhere to document it and the tools to disseminate it all around the globe.
But you don't have to be young to be stupid. And stupid depends on context.
Listen. If the product of everybody's video cams were confiscated tomorrow due to some obscure clause of the Patriot Act, there are not many of us who could go to work the next day without eyes averted and mumbled greetings.
Because those portable video devices do not fly off the shelves just so mom and dad can record little Johnny's performance as a head of lettuce in the pre-school production of "The Fruits and Vegetables Follies.''
There's a lot of other product stuff stuck in sock drawers.
So, let's go a little easy on Ms. Barba. Let her go home because she can't sing, not because someone snapped her photo while she was on the john.