• February 13, 2012

wonkette

OH NOES, LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR THE BLOGGIES! And awards season will finally end, forever, as long as you’ve kindly voted for Wonkette, in all three (3) categories, at this 2009 Bloggies site and received your Confirmation Email, which can be exchanged for two (2) hobo beans in 2010, at the White House. [2009 [...]

MAKE YR VOTE COUNT! Just a few days left to vote for your Wonkette in the political, humor and group-sexblog 2009 Bloggies! Make sure you get the email confirmation, and scroll right to find the categories. Muchas gracias por su consideración! [2009 Bloggies]

Let’s see, Oscar nominations, who cares … oh look, nominations for the 2009 Bloggies are out, and whoa, jesus christ, your Wonkette is nominated for Best Weblog About Politics, Most Humorous Weblog and Best Group Weblog. Yikes! Thank you, good peoples, for nominating us, for these magical invisible trophies.

WE HAVE BECOME MONSTERS: “Sara K. Smith of Wonkette fame is the fourth Suxorz panelist, with solid lead among the 2059 votes cast. Thank you all for participating!” [Suxorz Facebook]

ROAD OF BONES: Polls close tomorrow night, for this tragic Fake Weblog Awards warblogging contest. Comics Curmudgeon for the Humor, Blue Gal’s pick of Driftglass for this thing, and let’s have a final crushing blow against all other “liberal blogs,” for the sin of being liberal.

OKAY NOW IT IS TIME FOR THE REAL BLOGGIES: We don’t even know what that other Weblog Awards thing is about, other than you should keep voting for us, because why not? But the real true authentic Weblog Awards Thing is back, and accepting nominations for all your favorite categories of websites such as “Best [...]

SARA K. SMITH IS PRESIDENT OF DRUDGE REPORT: Your favorite Wonkette editrix is also writing comical blog posts serious journalism for NBC in, uh, New York. And Los Angeles. And she got a DRUDGE LINK for her very first piece, about how lonely puritanical Democrats don’t have any Sexy Scandals — it’s right there in [...]

IT’S YOUR JIM NEWELL Q&A: “Transexual? Transsexual? We use this word frequently on Wonkette, but God knows how it’s spelled.” [Fishbowl DC]

NONE OF YOU PEOPLE DO ACTUAL WORK, DO YOU? Click the little picture here and you will see something remarkable: More than 500 of you nuts are playing this little EcoDriving game widget deal, and you’ve accumulated nearly 15 million points. The closest competition doesn’t even have a half-million points, while losers who read Talking [...]

We want to do a special Tuesday Afternoon Sponsor Shouting Out, because jesus h. christ on a Bloomberg ticker, these are not really great financial times, and we are as happy as Hank Paulson on a birdwatching trip to see so many ads here, today, and we encourage you to look at them, buy some [...]

Ha ha, our friend and Wonkette Operative “Sarah W.” went to vote in the important swing state of Virginia, where she lives, and there was a long line. So the people waiting around for an hour began conversing with one another, and a “very nice young couple” began talking about their favorite political website, Wonkette, [...]

Thanks to this week’s Wonkette sponsors, who always stay an extra half-hour to shake everyone’s hand: Oliver Stone’s W, Electoral-Vote.com, PAPERtoCANVAS.com, WSJ.com, The Green Collar Economy, Dar Williams’ Promised Land, EcoDrivingUSA, MSNBC, T. Boone Pickens’ PickensPlan.com, Genius and Heroin by Michael Largo, Progressive Book Club, and Standard Operating Procedure by director Errol Morris. Want to [...]

Let us give thanks to our advertisers, who would never make us debate without a big stack of index cards: Bill Maher’s Religulous, City National Bank, Oliver Stone’s W, FX’s Testees, Electoral-Vote.com, EcoDriving USA, Grassroots Campaigns, Dar Williams’ Promised Land, Nanco Electronics, Progressive Book Club, Liberty Mutual’s The Responsibility Project, and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith [...]

Let us thank Wonkette’s advertisers, who never ever inject politics into the important work of saving America’s billionaires: Bill Maher’s Religulous, Roger Weisberg’s Critical Condition, CarryABigSticker.com, Cafe Press Election ’08, Electoral-Vote.com, Grassroots Campaigns, Shooting War, ACLU’s I’m a Constitution Voter and EcoDrivingUSA.com. Want to advertise on Wonkette? Click here for the exciting details.

MORE CAMPAIGN DISCOURSE: Oh look, it’s Ben Smith of the Politico and your editor doing one of these New York Magazine things. Smith says Wonkette’s commenters suck, and describes how Steve Schmidt put him in that tank! Your editor types more weird shit about Plato and Grand Moff Tarkin. [NY Mag Instant Politics]