Yesterday, the NY Times offered a startling peek inside the increasingly pessimistic world of Nick Denton, the blog mogul behind the Gawker empire (which includes Wonkette).

The article raised more questions than it answered about the recent Women’s Wear Daily scoop, which noted that David Lat has been lured away from the DC polisnark blog by the burgeoning media empress Elizabeth Spiers:

“Better to sober up now, before the end of the party,” [Denton] said in announcing the realignment. As of last Friday, Sploid, a tabloid-infested site built on screen shots, and Screenhead, an aggregator of video clips, were put up for sale. Editors at Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo, and Gridskipper were moved or replaced. At a time when mainstream media companies are madly baking their own piece of blog pie, Mr. Denton was summarily executing underperformers. 

We highly doubt that Lat is an underperformer, but that is an implication one could garner from the article, which also notes that Denton “has a massive noggin and a quiet ego to match.” Sounds like a man after our own heart (head).

Meanwhile, team Wonkette has raised its collective nose skyward — ignoring the Times report altogether — instead putting a happy face on their remaining days together with a gay-old-time report on Congressional baseball — including lovely pics from our favorite Wonkette reporter, Liz Gorman.