SARA K. SMITH IS PRESIDENT OF DRUDGE REPORT: Your favorite Wonkette editrix is also writing comical blog posts serious journalism for NBC in, uh, New York. And Los Angeles. And she got a DRUDGE LINK for her very first piece, about how lonely puritanical Democrats don’t have any Sexy Scandals — it’s right there in bold, italic and underline in the right-hand column. This is the equivalent of winning the Pulitzer/Nobel/Oscar times 1 billion on your first day at work. [NBC New York/NBC Los Angeles/Drudge Report]

• IT’S YOUR JIM NEWELL Q&A: “Transexual? Transsexual? We use this word frequently on Wonkette, but God knows how it’s spelled.” [Fishbowl DC]

NONE OF YOU PEOPLE DO ACTUAL WORK, DO YOU? Click the little picture here and you will see something remarkable: More than 500 of you nuts are playing this little EcoDriving game widget deal, and you’ve accumulated nearly 15 million points. The closest competition doesn’t even have a half-million points, while losers who read Talking Points Memo and Power Line and, presumably, fivethirtyeight.com (Nate’s EcoDrivers?) actually have scores lower than any human math can represent. MORE »

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Ha ha, our friend and Wonkette Operative “Sarah W.” went to vote in the important swing state of Virginia, where she lives, and there was a long line. So the people waiting around for an hour began conversing with one another, and a “very nice young couple” began talking about their favorite political website, Wonkette, and how everybody is addicted to this campaign. Hello, Arlington couple in your 20s who voted today like Good Americans! (Also dudes we need POLLING PLACE PIX send them with SEXY POLLING PIX as the subject line, but until then we will keep using Halloween Costume Pix you sent us, like this one, of Max Schwartz, who is obviously deep in the tank.)

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MORE CAMPAIGN DISCOURSE: Oh look, it’s Ben Smith of the Politico and your editor doing one of these New York Magazine things. Smith says Wonkette’s commenters suck, and describes how Steve Schmidt put him in that tank! Your editor types more weird shit about Plato and Grand Moff Tarkin. [NY Mag Instant Politics]

FUN NEW YORK MAGAZINE THING, WITH YOUR EDITOR! Here’s tonight’s “Instant Politics” back & forth with your editor and Clinton/Gore/West Wing writer Eli Attie. Sample: “It’s like a Philip K. Dick version of an election. It’s all about shooting moose and getting tortured 40 years ago and respecting women and elitist blacks. It’s insane.” [New York Magazine]

NERD ALERT: Oh hey do you like the new Internet fad of the Twitter? Well, your Wonkette has been on the Twitter for a while now, but it never really, uh, worked. (We blame past management.) Now it works! We still have no idea what the Twitter does, but 550 people have subscribed to it, even though it didn’t work, so now everybody can unsubscribe, the end. [Twitter-Wonkette]