As per Wonkette, it appears that John Edwards has opened up a virtual campaign headquarters in Second Life. Wonkette’s snide comment:

It’s just like the Dean campaign’s obsession with Meetup, except that instead of actually leaving your house to go to a fundraising party, you can pretend to be a huge-chested Japanese woman.

A large-chested Japanese woman? How utterly pedestrian.

Second Life is positioning itself to be more like a browser and platform, like the Web. But like any new technology, the perverts have embraced it first and pushed it to the limits.

Yes, yes, I know. SL isn’t all about sex, but there’s no denying that sex is the face forward in Second Life — I’m sure Amsterdam has lots of culture, too, but as far as popular opinion goes, it’s all hash brownies in the red light district.

Of course, the actual World Wide Web is a sex bonanza as well, but net porn is so old news, whereas Second Life is something new and shiny for the press to be hysterical about. The short form: if Hillary is unscrupulous enough, this could be the first presidential election where the words ‘virtual ageplay’ is a phrase muttered by reporters too lazy to do research beyond hysterical rantings from Jack Thompson.