ALL OF THIS IS FACTUAL TRUTH: “So thank fucking christ that the Commander in Chief is no longer subjecting the nation to death porn. No, this year it’s limited to a nutty little cult leader on basic cable who is encouraging his radicalized band of fanatical followers to invade the cities where the tragedy actually happened in order to shock the populace back into fear. Glenn Beck is an actual terrorist, and the people attending his rally in DC tomorrow are al-Qaeda in America.” [Alex Pareene]

ALEX PAREENE ON PALIN’S INSANE GOODBYE: “It’s like Peggy Noonan, Jack London, and William Faulkner wandered into the woods with three buttons of peyote and one typewriter, and only this speech emerged.” [Gawker]

ALUMNI REPORT: Original Wonkette editor Ana Marie Cox (Class of ‘04-’06) and editor-after-that Alex Pareene (Class of ‘06-’07) have exciting new programming you should know about: Ms. Cox now hosts the Air America radio show The Inside Story (Saturdays at 9AM and Sundays at noon) while Mr. Pareene is now the curator of Everyone Is Trying To Kill You at True/Slant.

While all you libtards were just drunkenly having sex last November to create the new army of Kenyan Obama Babies to be born fully formed in His Image this summer, important conservative academics at our nation’s better think tanks were boldly thinking about ways to kill African Sea Pirates with laser weapons. [Heritage.org via Alex Pareene's gchat status]

One of the weirdest things to watch in American politics is how the wingnuts do these lockstep moves to some “what the hell are they even talking about?” fake outrage, and within hours there are millions of inane illiterate blog comments and chain emails and C-SPAN callers all prattling on about something nobody had any problem with and had never even heard of, say, last week. How does this happen? What is ACORN, anyway? MORE »

CHECKING IN WITH FORMER WONKETTE EDITOR ALEX PAREENE: It is just like the old days when Pareene & Layne would spend Election Nights typing horrible things to each other over G-Chat. But this time, it’s apparently about John Edwards refusing to ever concede to anyone, because of the Mill, and Pareene works for Gawker in New York.

So, as most everyone knows, Alex Pareene abandoned Wonkette for the greener Gawker field and is on his way out of D.C. as well. When I was still anonymous, he was technically my boss, so I got an taste of having a young whippersnapper of a boss at least 15 years before I expected it to happen. But, as Ken said before me, he was a pretty cool guy. However, he never really liked doing party reports (because he was happier in a dive bar) and really hated to be in pictures, which is why I documented his going away party, after the jump.

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The Washington DC Improv comedy club held its 12th annual “Funniest Celebrity in Washington” fundraiser last night, where politicians, TV personalities, local cultural aesthetes and ex-Wonkette editors (Mary Cox or whatever, as well as Pareene this year) give stand-up comedy an awkward try. Unsurprisingly, the winner was Onion assistant editor Joseph Randazzo, followed by Sen. Arlen Specter (video above, via PennLive) in second and Cox lady in third. Randazzo had all sorts of jo–

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Never met Pareene. Never spoken to him, in person or on the phone. We only ever sent short messages via gchat, exclusively, because nobody else uses gchat so you don’t get bothered. Never had any substantive conversation regarding Wonkette or anything work-related beyond constant complaining about the company and its terrible broken technology. We only ever had one single goal: to move Wonkette to blogspot. Oh, and to quit. [Moving to Gawker's not really quitting Gawker]

Hello, comrades! Have you enjoyed Wonkette these past 18 months or so? Well, good, because now we’re going to change it all around, as far as who writes and edits the thing. Editor and “national treasure” Alex Pareene is moving to New York City for a secret new assignment he’ll explain in another post, and I’m hanging around for a while as a daily contributor and will continue to sort of vaguely maintain the invisible “West Coast Bureau” — yes, you can go ahead and offer me lucrative free-lance stuff now, and this time I might actually do it. MORE »

Former Examiner gossip and queen-of-all-media Karen Feld has a small bone to pick with Wonkette. So she sat right down and wrote a letter to our bosses. It’s reprinted in its entirety after the jump, but here’s the gist:

What documentation does he have that I suffer from dementia?
And that I am a dog abuser?

Pareene gets a stern, rambling talking-to, after the jump.

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