It used to be that baby's first bong hit was enough to dash your Washington dreams, but now that it's okay to admit to having done that and more, it is the more nefarious deeds that will be keeping Obama administration hopefuls out out of the White House. Things like Facebook.

The seven-page questionnaire being issued by the office of the president elect wants to know everything you've ever done in the history of ever before they let you be affiliated with Him. This includes everything you've ever done online. They want your Facebook and Myspace pages and any screennames or online handles you've used. They want to see your comments on Gawker, your questions on Metafilter, your video diary on Vimeo. The party pics from freshman year? They are going to see them. That overly personal blog that you started in a fit of oversharing and immediately took offline? They are going to read it. All the gchat conversations you had about procuring pot brownies and trying to piece together last night? On the record. They want anything you've ever written that might embarrass the president elect.

So what does this all mean?

Even Obama's interns are going to have to be like 80 years old, because
I'll never be able to work for the president. And neither will you. LS

props to the nyt for the pic