But she isn't even a good writer!

HBO is plowing ahead with a sitcom based on "The Washingtonienne," the D.C.-set novel inspired by Cutler's blog of same name in which she discussed her exploits with a boatload of men around town in such glorious detail.

This just goes to show the world that American television executives prefer the prurient to the profound, the salicious to the substantial, the tawdry to the tasteful, the crass to class. You get the picture.

I just have to object.

This is the worst example of voyeurism gone cable. Folks may compare Washingtonienne's sexcapades with Sex and the City, but I beg to differ. SATC was about the tight relationship of four single women, as they steered their ways through the Gotham jungle. It was smart, witty, and fun (if a bit unrealistic -- but we liked that escapism too). Sex was definitely an integral part of the story line, but it was only one facet of these characters.

Washingtonienne, on the other hand, was really not much more than a call girl looking for an easy buck (as well as that word that rhymes with "buck"). Folks read her blog for shock value, to try and figure out who was giving her the big bucks. Tabloid trash. What's so interesting about that? She put all the incredibly hard-working, grossly underpaid Hill staffers who are serving in the public -- not pubic -- interest in a bad light. And on behalf of my friends on the Hill, I resent that.

Really, why, why, why would anyone want to develop it into sitcom to glorify her antics and send more cash her way?