This website still exists. It’s a political weblog, known for “rounding up” the day’s Internet news pages and offering unique “online-only” points-of-view on the Beltway’s goings-on. Someone should have taken a photo of it and placed it within the text of “Chapter 12: Surfing Out Into the World Wide Web” in the American history file of a child’s Google-branded textbook viewing glasses. And yet it is still being updated, here, in 2014! And thriving! And doing interesting things! It is a strange phenomenon for many reasons, not the least of which is that I sort of almost destroyed it a few years ago, when I regarded a person as he should not be regarded.
Ah yes, I remember that particular clusterfuck, but I wasn't aware that the affair was touched off by a post here. All I remember hearing about the source was that it came from "a few blogging websites" but no direct attribution. I knew about Wonkette at the time, and had actually known about it for quite some time prior to that, but I was still only a very occasional visitor back then. I always liked the tone here at the Wonket, but for a long time the writing was just too "inside baseball" for me. Too many inside-the-beltway references and opaque running gags. But that was perhaps more my problem than theirs.
At this point I could segue into why I so dearly/masochistically love the current Editrix-helmed site and its current stable of writers, but since this post is about reminiscing about past highlights, I&#039;ll leave it for another time. I do regret not being here during the site&#039;s Hadean and Achaean eras and the Late Heavy Bombardment and tectonic shifts, and at least one glaciation from the sounds of things, that it went through while on the way to becoming the garden of snarking ponees and exploding pig doots that we all know today. I would have enjoyed witnessing the evolutionary process, in part so that I would have a snappy comeback when Young Internet ignoramuses demand to know, &quot;Were you <i>there?&quot;</i>
Agreed...and to put a finer point on it, I want to die being liked by people I hated.Then, at some point during the eulogy, they say to themselves, &quot;that fucker said what??&quot;
We will always have Cakes We Like, Jack. It was and remains my only tip to ever get airplay here on teh Wonkette, and it was all thanks to you. I love you Jack!
I would provide a more complete explanation but Wonkette seems to have been programmed to eat up any reference to the event in question. Try reading the <a href="http:\/\/wonkette.com\/466226\/programming-note-rules-for-commenting-radicals" target="_blank">rules for commenters</a> and see if you can tell what Jack may have done.
I was very bothered by the post when I read it. I showed my disapproval by not commenting on it and ignoring it. Later, I wish I had expressed my opinion, though, because I thought it was in very poor taste and thought I should say so. At no time did it occur to me the appropriate response was to organize a boycott of the site or issue death threats.
Fun fact: No comments we made before 8/30/2010 can now be seen. Because I guess Wonkette didn&#039;t allow comments. (Also, because that&#039;s when INTENSE DEBATE~! happened.)
(Also EVEN MORE FUN FACT: Our Editrix fucking hates the Intense Debate comment system.)
She, like ChetKincaid, appear to have removed themselves to Tweeter.
Oh, was there ever. I hope he&#039;s doing okay. Last we heard, he was teaching (English?) in the Czech Republic.
&quot;aneuploidies&quot;, Jack? ISWYDT.
I&#039;m gonna get my mind right, boss
man i loved insidious tuna. wish he/she would come back.
yes this
today has been like red hot chili peppers - something vaguely exciting years ago.
still. it&#039;s been a great ride. glad to have shared it with those of you i did.
(rock on jack.)
Ah yes, I remember that particular clusterfuck, but I wasn&#039;t aware that the affair was touched off by a post here. All I remember hearing about the source was that it came from &quot;a few blogging websites&quot; but no direct attribution. I knew about Wonkette at the time, and had actually known about it for quite some time prior to that, but I was still only a very occasional visitor back then. I always liked the tone here at the Wonket, but for a long time the writing was just too &quot;inside baseball&quot; for me. Too many inside-the-beltway references and opaque running gags. But that was perhaps more my problem than theirs.
At this point I could segue into why I so dearly/masochistically love the current Editrix-helmed site and its current stable of writers, but since this post is about reminiscing about past highlights, I&#039;ll leave it for another time. I do regret not being here during the site&#039;s Hadean and Achaean eras and the Late Heavy Bombardment and tectonic shifts, and at least one glaciation from the sounds of things, that it went through while on the way to becoming the garden of snarking ponees and exploding pig doots that we all know today. I would have enjoyed witnessing the evolutionary process, in part so that I would have a snappy comeback when Young Internet ignoramuses demand to know, &quot;Were you <i>there?&quot;</i>
Ain&#039;t that the truth?
The head&#039;s the best part.
Wait, did I just say that out loud?
:::Dash slap forehead::: D&#039;oh...I almost forgot.
Agreed...and to put a finer point on it, I want to die being liked by people I hated.Then, at some point during the eulogy, they say to themselves, &quot;that fucker said what??&quot;
We will always have Cakes We Like, Jack. It was and remains my only tip to ever get airplay here on teh Wonkette, and it was all thanks to you. I love you Jack!
I would provide a more complete explanation but Wonkette seems to have been programmed to eat up any reference to the event in question. Try reading the <a href="http:\/\/wonkette.com\/466226\/programming-note-rules-for-commenting-radicals" target="_blank">rules for commenters</a> and see if you can tell what Jack may have done.
I was very bothered by the post when I read it. I showed my disapproval by not commenting on it and ignoring it. Later, I wish I had expressed my opinion, though, because I thought it was in very poor taste and thought I should say so. At no time did it occur to me the appropriate response was to organize a boycott of the site or issue death threats.
Fun fact: No comments we made before 8/30/2010 can now be seen. Because I guess Wonkette didn&#039;t allow comments. (Also, because that&#039;s when INTENSE DEBATE~! happened.)
(Also EVEN MORE FUN FACT: Our Editrix fucking hates the Intense Debate comment system.)