WE HATE TO BE LIKE THOSE PEOPLE WHO THINK A TEMPORARY GMAIL CRASH IS WORSE THAN HITLER & THE APOCALYPSE COMBINED BUT HONESTLY, IT’S JUST REALLY INCONVENIENT: As an actual monster once wrote, “Torture always is ugly. So, though, is the hole in the ground where the Gmail once stood.” Oh ho ho — but now it’s back up and working again? Thank you for keeping us safe, Dick Cheney!

Even though we live in pretty amazing times, what with the technology and magic and all, we generally just complain about it. And by “we,” we mean “you,” because your Wonkette is very cognizant of the fact that there’s no way this particular operation could exist — across four time zones, simultaneously, with no offices — without the wizardry of Gmail and IMs and WordPress and, obviously, Blingee. So we fully support Barack Obama’s choice as Chief Information Officer of America, this dude Vivek Kundra, who was the tech guru for Washington D.C. until just now! MORE »

Earlier today, we sent a gmail invite to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. We’re happy to report that he (and surely not some quick Wonkette reader) started an account approximately ten minutes after we posted, and quickly responded with this email: MORE »

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