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We asked you to come up with the new D.C. Cocktail of the Now, and good jesus did you people respond. There were a hundred or so actual drink recipes submitted in the comments, and your editors painstakingly tested them all in our elaborate Experimental Bar. The winning choice — with small adjustments by Wonkette [...]
There’s a new restaurant opening in Chinatown called “Asian Spice,” and Booze Master ScottL wants you to help create a famous new cocktail. “I would love to put a Wonkettini on the menu and thought it might be amusing if the commenters suggest a tasty libation befitting the name,” ScottL writes.
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 [...]
If you check out the New York Times’ comments section on its Tim Russert “death” article, you will notice most of the commenters telling a certain “Lesley” to shut her fat face for being Insensitive. But there is no longer any comment by this pagan Lesley, because the New York Times censors free speech and [...]
STILL CAN’T COMMENT? If you’ve created an account and can’t comment and can’t create a new account (with that name and e-mail address), our tech people kindly ask you to search all your spam and junk mail folders for “Wonkette commenting.” There’s a link in the email; you click it and it activates your comment [...]
HELPFUL COMMENT REGISTRATION TIP? If you’re still having troubles, try registering a slightly different commenter name with a different e-mail address. This is “working” for a lot of people who got stuck.
ALL (OTHER) BLOG COMMENTERS MUST DIE: What happens when you write a political blog post suggesting all commenters are half-literate racist morons who write the same ALL-CAPS crap regardless of the post’s subject? [Political Machine]
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 [...]
by Ken Layne
COMMENTERS ARE RUINING THE WORLD: Not you people, of course. We mean everybody else. Here’s Daniel Libit’s Politico story about the Age of Wacky Commenters, featuring some friendly words from your editor. [Politico]