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Will you be “in town” this weekend, maybe on Friday night? Well then you are invited to Wonkette’s first annual Halloweenie Whore Benefit, which is actually just a bar night we’re throwing together — and there is a Costume Party, too, so all you ladies have another chance to wear that “Christine O’Donnell Witch on [...]
Sorry we ran out! You guys bought them all, is what happened. But we’ve got fresh new stacks of ALL FOUR (4) DESIGNS for Ladies & Gentlemens: Don’t Teabag On Me, Palin Apocalypse, Tea Party Time and Walnuts Forever! The good people at the Factory in Austin are cranking out more as we type these [...]
Will this be terrible? Probably! But the crowds are likely to be much sexier then Glenn Beck’s sad old slob-followers: Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced competing rallies on the National Mall, on October 30. The character Colbert plays will be leading a “Keep Fear Alive” march, while Stewart’s sad anchorman character [...]
CNN has big news! A “Democratic source” has told the jejune news network that the Democratic Party will roll out “a major announcement Wednesday about the future of the party,” delivered in a speech by Tim Kaine at George Washington University. The speech is said to “excite Democrats across the country,” so be sure to [...]
SEND US SEXY PICTURES OF *YOU* IN YOUR WONKETTE T-SHIRTS: We learned from the Comics Curmudgeon (who is also your morning editor Josh Fruhlinger) that readers love to see fellow readers wearing funny shirts from the site they’re all reading. Why? Probably something about psychology or pornography.
TOP SECRET COMMINIQUÉ TO WONKETTE COMMENTERS: When the raven dives for a dragonfly and the dog barks at midnight, the monikers and pass-codes of the past will perish like art without patronage. What? Yes, this is an encrypted message, found at a dead drop in a Northern Virginia suburban park.
ATTENTION LIBERAL YOUTHS: The 2010 Campus Progress National Conference will happen July 7-8 at DC’s Omni Shoreham. Your editor will be on the “Make ‘Em Laugh: Promoting Progress Through Comedy” panel along with Baratunde Thurston of The Onion and Cord Jefferson of The Root and Erin Gibson of Info Mania. And then?
The other day we hit 911 posts on Twitter, which is a magickal number used to call the police when your neighbors are on the crack again at 4 o’clock in the morning and also the infamous/dreadful day when America officially began its self-fulfilling prophecy to topple like a stupid bloated giant full of ass-cancer [...]
ALL DONE, THANK YOU, NO MORE EMAILS PLEASE. WE ARE BURIED UNDER 250+ EMAILS, THIS IS ALL OVER, THANKS, WE APPRECIATE YOU NOT SENDING ANY MORE EMAILS, ALL DONE, OKAY. Photo and child courtesy of former SPLOID editor and current NBC blog editor Scott Ross. May 25, 2010. The sad news that Jim Newell is [...]
Hey, everybody, have you heard about the “mancession”? Now that Sarah Palin has ended sexism forever, as the economy slowly recovers all the ladies are getting elite media jobs or just stone cold finding fun, non-blogging things to do with their lives, because of their people skills and lack of body odor. Meanwhile, dudes are [...]
Alex Pareene, former editor of this site and current political writer for Gawker and the guy who kindly brought your current editor (that’s me fukkas) aboard the USS Wonkette back in the summer of 2006, is leaving the Gawker Empire to write the politics or whatever for … Salon!!!
WONKETTE PAULTARD PAL GARRETT QUINN GETS BOSTON GLOBE GIG: What happens when people write for your Wonkette? They get hired to write for other things! Joining recent “used to write for Wonkette but just got better gigs” people Juli Weiner and Dave Weigel is our young friend Garrett Quinn, who is now an official blogger [...]
Today we are saying Good-Bye Forever to our longtime Morning Editor, Sara K. Smith. She is leaving your Wonkette to “make more money writing dildo manuals” or whatever people do for Money these days. We will miss her, the end.
Last Notes On the New System, With Apologies For Comment Hardships
by Ken Layne
As Glenn Beck once said during the Martian Civil War, one-score and four hours ago, your Wonkette embarked upon its first redesign since 2007, and the first comment/technology system change since the spring of 2008, when Hillary Clinton was the Democratic frontrunner for president and Twitter was some weird new thing a few geeks were [...]