HEY EVERYBODY IT’S JIM NEWELL’S BIRTHDAY! Wonkette “associate editor” James “Jimbo” Newell is like 19 years old today! Let’s all remember him in the comments today, now that the “good part” of his life is long gone.

Did you have a fun weekend? We sure didn’t, because Team Wonkette is way up in New Hampshire covering this most precious of our precious freedoms, the New Hampshire Primary Campaign! Wonkette’s Jim Newell and Liz Glover have already had so many Democratic and Republican adventures.

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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 »