Gawker Media: Reporting all that is within five degrees of Julia Allison.

Harry "knew a girl that knew a girl who..." Wang

Harry "didn't I mean six" Wang

Considering she changed her name, there must be something about her upbringing that embarrasses her. Gawker needs to get on the case.

Once again Congress has its finger on the pulse of what Americans are talking about...3 years ago. The fact that at one point Julia Allison was researching and crafting legislation scares the hell out of me. Maybe this whole SecondLife thing was her pet project? Seems like the kind of "shock" issue that would get her noticed around the office.

He is probably a pedophile.

Guys like him and his namesake Mark Foley try to compensate for their compulsion by making useless noise about "protecting children".

Rep. Kirk, show ur IMs, LOL!

She once drank a latte at a Starbucks 1200 miles from my house.

And what's wrong with knocking Second Life other than giving it more publicity than it deserves?

@Ted Dziuba: She's said that it's so that her family isn't pulled into her consciously public life. Makes sense to me.

@googoobaby: Nothing is wrong with knocking Second Life but this Congressman's issue is he is trying to parent and police children instead of focussing on real issues he was elected to handle. Parents need to be watching their kids online. Its not the gov'ts job to parent.

@Let's Form Voltron: It's more that my family would like to stay as far away as possible from my public life. They were thrilled when I dropped the last name after college.

Understandable.

julia I saw you on that howdie doodie show (opus and butthead or lovelines with adam corolla or whatever it was). You were pretty darned slutty acting on it.... understandable indeed.