For instance, 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.

A novel defense, I must say. They have a lot of smart folks over there at the NSF...

Of course, no word on how much porn surfing happens over at the Washington Times. Do the Moonies allow porn? Inquiring minds want to know.

Taint has a point; one should be very skeptical about motive when Moonies or other religious freaks attack funding for science research.