If what Passionate America claims to have discovered is accurate, the page to whom Mark Foley sent explicit instant messages was 18 years old at the time: Meet Jordan Edmund One Mark Foley Instant Messenger.

UPDATE at 10/4/06 5:33:11 pm:

This is now the headline at Drudge Report.

UPDATE at 10/4/06 6:02:39 pm:

Allahpundit emails to say there are PDFs of an IM exchange from February 2, 2003. The page in question apparently turned 18 on February 23, 2003.

Does anybody but me think this is the stupidest, most insanely overblown scandal yet?

UPDATE at 10/4/06 6:23:03 pm:

Still there’ll be more: The Bogus Blog Behind Foley’s Fall. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)