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Protest Ghouls Invade D.C. Lunch Spots!

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

They are hungry for brains
A completely anonymous Wonkette operative reports that fake dead people are taking over the city. “At the corner of 15th and K a little while ago, there were 10 or 15 people ‘playing dead’ on the sidewalk outside my office. I also saw a girl get a suit from (I think) Caterpillar Inc. to flip his shit on camera as she asked him why his bulldozers ran over a 23-year-old American trying to protect her home in Palestine. He came off looking like the ‘roid rage douche he probably is, while she was calm, collected and slightly hippie-ish. (Although idk why the US out of Israel group felt the need to protest something other than the war today….)”

Harrowing tales of masked anti-war crusaders and their expensive sandwiches, after the jump! MORE »


Classic Dystopian Sci-Fi Book Influenced Bush Stem Cell Policy

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

this book is a terroristIt’s hard to understand Bush’s stubbornness on embryonic stem cell research. I guess he just likes it when people get cancer! I know I do. But maybe there’s a deeper issue at stake for Bush, one that us peons can’t understand. In fact, there… isn’t. It’s because his early stem cell policy shaper, Jay Lefkowitz — who has written a tell-all account in the new issue of Commentary — read Bush passages from Aldous Huxley’s dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World. And Bush got scared. MORE »


Autumn of the Patriarchs

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Like much of the rest of the media nation, employees at Wonkette HQ are still genuinely grieving the loss of Peter Jennings. But the depiction of the admirably plainspoken ABC News anchor as a fallen King Lear figure is getting a bit out of hand. In a psychologically, uhm, revealing remembrance, the AP’s David Bauder imagines a relationship between the nation and its network newscasters that seems just a tad too intimate: MORE »