Is this a public service announcement?

According to official documents, Congressional pages spend their junior year of high school ferrying messages back and forth for members of Congress. They make the eyepopping (for a high schooler) wage of 18-20k a year. They have their own school and dorm! What could go wrong with this arrangement? It sounds even cooler than Hogwarts!

Sadly, the age of page innocence has come to an end. Sen. Larry Craig, recently arrested for doing a gay tap dance next to a police officer in Minneapolis Airport (not exactly sure what said gay tap dance entailed, the officer said that Craig tapped his feet on the bathroom floor in a way that suggested the Senator wanted sex. Again, not exactly sure how you communicate a message like that by foot-tapping. Perhaps Morse Code? Maybe ask Craig's wife if this is common foreplay for him?) Anyway, Craig is also famous for a big scandal back in 1982, when he - this is just so awful - got several Congressional pages drunk and tapped a real long message (if you get my meaning, dot-dash-dot) on their helpless schoolboy asses.

And then there's the now-defunct Rep. Mark Foley, who used the Internet (that bastion of sodomy) to have cybersex with former male pages.

So all in all, it seems "messenger" is no longer a Congressional page's only duty. Little Republican boys beware.