A wonderful article on BlackBerries and Washington, published a few days ago in The New York Times.

No community seems to have embraced the romantic possibilities of the BlackBerry as wholeheartedly as Washington’s young politicos. In the high-tempo, socially incestuous world of Washington politics, where more than 60 percent of Congressional staff members are single, the BlackBerry ‚– a wireless e-mail device introduced five years ago by Research in Motion, a Canadian company ‚– has become indispensable to social life.