You Ask Me for a Contribution... Well, you know, We're All Doing What We Can.

It would appear another blogger's made the papers.

Ellen Simonetti, known in the blog world as Queen of Sky, got herself fired from her stewardess... ahem, flight attendant position at Delta Airlines for posting some "racy" photos of herself on her blog (which can be viewed here - not bad, like a strong 7-weak 8, but part of me thinks the allure comes from an innate desire to join the Mile High Club).

For those of you who didn't look, she's posing on grounded airplanes in her Delta uniform, showing a little skin and eating a little pizza.

This isn't the first time I've heard of a case like this, either. Jessica Cutler, former Washington, D.C. staffer and Syracuse University alum (oh, I'm swelling with pride over that), essentially got blacklisted in Washington for keeping a side job as a Hill whore and recording her antics as Washingtonienne. Granted, her blog consisted of "racy" encounters she may or may not have had with prominent Washington socialites (rumored to be more likely not, though she never names any names), but it's the principle of the thing. These blogs are hazardous to your job health.

Now, why should anyone give a crap, you ask? I'll tell you. These blogs we've adopted in our times on this feeble planet can be held against us (in Ellen's sense, potentially in a court of law). Her Aerial Majesty wasn't aware anyone from Delta knew about her blog, let alone checked it. However, with over a recorded 500,000 hits, ya had to believe SOMEBODY was reading it. Granted, her blog essentially tells of her day-to-day escapades as a flight attendant, and her 15 minutes now will presumably make her a martyr to some, but I find this story a little more telling than that.

Express yourself, and you may get screwed for it. Due to ignorance? Perhaps. Neglect? Maybe. But it just strikes me in how we who express ourselves in this format feel to be hopefully leaving something personal, and just the potential that someone misunderstand it, and worse yet, use it against us, I imagine says something about the human condition.

Or, it says people think too highly of the Internet. One or the other.