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Gotta admit, we’re feeling a teeny bit of pressure for tonight’s liveblogging. The last time we remember the comedy stakes being anywhere near as high as this was the GOP YouTube Debate last November. (Memories!) (Sigh.) Come back at 8:30 ET for the pre-game liveblog! Until then, we’ve compiled the last two days’ worth of [...]
CALM DOWN NERDS: Famous person Josh Fruhlinger’s beloved “Cartoon Violence” will be back next week, and every week … starting next week. [Cartoon Violence]
BE OUR D.C. INTERN: There is one (1) internship open for a Washington D.C. student who will write a quick daily thing, on weekdays, and have the personality to go cover some stuff in town sometimes, like indie rock shows and ice cream socials and gallery openings and K Street job fairs and inaugurations and [...]
NEW MOJAVE DESERT COLUMN: From your editor, for the Los Angeles City Beat paper, and also for viewers like you. And do not forget your Weekette collection, so go read the paper, if you are in Southern California today. [LA CityBeat]
South Dakota Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, née “Stephanie Herseth,” is married to former Representative Max Sandlin. The happy couple just announced they will be having a baby sometime in late December, and the child will be elected to the House of Representatives no later than early March. [Argus Leader]
COMICS CURMUDGEON ON JEOPARDY SOON! Wonkette’s own Josh “Comics Curmudgeon” Fruhlinger will be on your teevee at either 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. (check local listings!) and the rumor is he “lets Trebek have it” and also wins super-champion Ken Jennings’ golden crown! [Jeopardy]
EXCITING LISTENING OPPORTUNITY FOR WONKETTE READERS! Those of you who have the XM satellite radio can listen to Wonkette’s own Comics Curmudgeon this afternoon!
YOU’RE ALL SCREWED: The fine folks who have been working tirelessly to transition your Wonkette to a new home have informed your editors of a wonderful new technological “feature.” Now when we ban your commenter accounts, we have the Nuclear Option of an IP address ban! This means you won’t be able to sneak your [...]
YOU GOT YOUR POLITICS BLOG IN MY ALT-WEEKLY: If you’re in LA you can get a whole week’s worth of national political scandal & shame by picking up the newly redesigned City Beat. The column is called … Weekette! [LA City Beat]
UNACCEPTABLE WONKETTE AD NOTED, REMOVED: Argh, so we go out to dinner and come back to see the former nice Obama T-shirts ad “updated” with Barack Obama as a monkey. Sweet. Ad is deleted. Thanks for letting us know. UPDATE: All the ads are gone now, as we can’t get that one ad to vanish. [...]
COMMENTERS: WE FEEL YR PAIN! We are aware of the ongoing tragedy, in that many of Wonkette’s loyal, bestest commenters are still locked out of the system, even though they’ve tried to re-register, and did everything as instructed. Hold tight; the tech team is working to fix it, and like Hillary, we shall overcome (these [...]
Late in the European Night, a new baby Wonkette was born. It is, of course, terribly deformed. But modern technical medicine can turn it into a beautiful, vulgar little swan. Your editors can’t really put up posts right now, due to a kind of monster called a “Domain Name Server.” (Your editor is sending this [...]
Hello Peoples! Remember that whole thing about your Wonkette getting a new home, and all that? Well, it is still true — and tonight, Wonkette will suffer the miracle of transmigration. What will this mean? How will you, the Wonkette Community, be affected? Will it hurt “down there”? Find out, after the jump. 1. The [...]
by Ken Layne
SAD COMMENTERS PLZ TRY AGAIN! Are you one of the unlucky people who never got your new commenter account working? Try again now! Some kind of secret fix has been done by the Experts somewhere. Thanks, and sorry.