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IS IT ‘WRITE A LETTER TO WONKETTE DAY’? “Your political views show too much favoritism toward on presidential candidate. If this is truly a gossip column, which it is, you should not be opinionated. — Tanya Suarez” [Wonkette Letters]
Dear Editor,
I am done. As much as I enjoy reading the adolescent snarky head-lines and the news that they allege to describe, I am fed up. Wonkette consistently uses Senator Clinton as a punching bag. It is my opinion that Wonkette is as culpable as the rest of the low brow general media with their emotionally laden bludgeons on Senator Clinton. MORE »
Nutters send us angry e-mails every day, all day long, so it takes something special to really get our attention — usually, untreated schizophrenia is a great way to “make it” on Wonkette. But today, we offer you a glimpse into a secret and very tiny world … a world in which people, without irony, quote David Patraeus in their email sigs: MORE »
Every so often our Minnesota Correspondent emails us at 3 a.m. or so to bitch at length about something terrible and offensive he read in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Last night it was nutty columnist Katherine Kersten. Kersten, in a piece from earlier this week, warns us that poor, beleaguered Minneapolis has become a dangerous and bloody Road Warrior-inspired nightmarescape. MORE »
Subject: A message for Alex on his way out
From: [redacted]@aol.com
Date: 10/3/2007 9:08 PM
To: tips@wonkette.com MORE »
Considering that party promotion is already one of the most annoying professions in the world, it takes more than a little something extra to get noticed. It takes levels of un-self-conscious douchery that most people can’t even dream of. Back in June a friend forwarded me an email from a a dude she’d never heard of before inviting her to party that sounded like the worst thing either of us had ever heard of.
Kick off the 1st Official Night of Summer 2007! Mojito’s & Ketel One Citroen Specials all night! Music by DJ Alex Funk playing 80’s + Current Hits. No Cover Charge - Resort Attire = Seersucker, Topsiders, Pearls, Madras, Popped Collars, Red Pants and Sundresses.
It is perhaps the most ill-advised subject line for a fundraiser email we’ve seen this cycle: You, Bill Clinton, a TV, and a bowl of chips. It sounds like a high-profile lawsuit waiting to happen. Or the chorus to a Steely Dan song. But it’s totally real! There’s a contest! You could sit on a couch and watch tv and eat Ruffles with America’s Favorite Former President Ever! Let’s let Bill explain how: MORE »
When we saw a McCain fundraiser email that said it was from Roger Staubach we were totally bewildered and excited. Not until we loaded the attached images did we realize that it was the former Cowboy and not Robert Steinbuch. [CBS]
THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO. THIS COUNTRY WAS
> FOUNDED, “ONE NATION UNDER GOD”. ALMIGHTY GOD, NOT THE GOD OF THE
> KURAN.
“What Larry Craig should do the next time he wants to do Sudoku is pick someone up in the McDonald’s in Union Station and THEN proceed to the bathrooms. Apparently this is how the pros avoid the entrapping cops b/c my twink-ish looking friend has been hit on in such a manner (he’s straight) by older business suit-wearing gentlemen.”
An emailer writes:
As per the claims of a lover’s quarrel, Ralph (aka Rob) has been a fixture of gay.com for a long while.
