Update on Ravenstahl Porn Portal

Somebody has a sense of humor. Earlier this week, I did a quick post (as did PittGirl over at The Burgh Blog) concerning the fact that a cyber-squatter had registered the address www.lukeravenstahl.com, and was operating it as a porn portal. Someone with a keen gift for irony has apparently taken action to fix this situation, and the site no longer operates as a pornographic link fest. Instead, the new owner of the address (whoever it may be) has decided to point the address to a rather infamous column published in mid-February of this year by the Post-Gazette's Brian O'Neill, titled, "2 Pittsburgh mayoral candidates in search of a difference".

Those of you who can actually remember a time when Pittsuburgh's interim mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, was still facing some kind of opposition in this year's election may also remember the outcry sparked by this particular column. Local bloggers were all over the story, of course, but Mr. O'Neill's comments were actually enough to spawn a long sequence of letters to the editor in rebuttal.

And now, it's this very column, celebrating the interim mayor's mediocrity and talent for copying the ideas of others, that visiting www.lukeravenstahl.com will take you to. As I say, someone has a sense of humor.

[h/t to commenter maverick for pointing this one out.]