Hi, everyone. Alex here. Did you notice I was gone? No? Too busy giggling like idiots at Michael Steele and Ann Coulter to even wish me a happy birthday — you didn’t even call, you didn’t write, not so much as a series of angry posts on anonymous blogs calling me a queer, nothing. MORE »

Team Wonkette Field Trip! From left: David Lat, the Comics Curmudgeon, Intern Nick (mostly hidden), and Alex Pareene.

Last night, Team Wonkette made its way out to RFK stadium for the annual Congressional Baseball Game, sponsored by Roll Call. The game was, well, sad and pathetic. The Republicans won 12-1 (Roberts recused himself). But man, what a trip. Drunk hill staffers everywhere, Katherine Harris wandering around, tight unis on middle-aged legislative paunches, and William Jefferson looking really intense. Pocket full of sandpaper, of course. But that’s another story — one for after the jump, in fact, illustrated with lovely pictures from Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter.

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I’ve had my picture taken with Katherine Harris — in matching outfits, no less. My work here is done.

Greetings. It’s David Lat, one of your two editors here at Wonkette. And just like Star Jones, another ex-prosecutor-turned-sassy-personality, I’m using this week to say good-bye — at least for now.

As is usually the case, the gossip is true. I’m leaving the wild ‘n wacky world of politics, which I’ve enjoyed blogging about for the past five months, to return to my first love: the law. Not the practice of it, but writing about it; I’m going back to the legal blogosphere, from whence I came. Having spent a truckload of dough earnin’ a fancy law school degree, as well as several years in legal practice, I figure I might as well put it all to some productive use (with “productive” loosely defined).

The full details, plus teary farewells, after the jump (or just click here, then scroll down).

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Quick! Guess which one used to be lawyer! (Photo ? Nikola Tamindzic/AMBREL.net) MORE »

Well, that

Perhaps you’ve heard rumors about a change in leadership at this weblog? To set the record straight, Wonkette herself took a moment from her book tour to relate the definitive word about her ascension to Wonkette Emeritus and those soon to take the helm…

Wonkette readers are always the last to know, eh? Sorry about that. Under the able leadership of the new Wonkettes-in-waiting, David Lat and Alex Pareene, I’m sure it won’t ever happen again. (How do I feel about replacements, you ask? I’m thrilled; until now the idea of Wonkette being taken over by two men only existed in my letters to Penthouse Forum.)

Yesterday’s Reliable Source item got most of the facts right regarding my retirement from this smutty spot; if you’re wondering what word they bleeped, the unadulterated quote about my reasons for stepping down as chief Wonkette was: “My ass is tired,” pause, “From the sitting, I mean.” Heh. Just for old time’s sake. Ass-fucking used to be the new black; I’m pretty sure that sodomy has now, uhm, jumped the shark. (Which is, of course, legal in Texas.)

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