1) Hey BHDC, maybe you can do a new post about the threats and harassment that Free Republic and many other Web sites are getting over Larry Sinclair’s story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055994/posts

2) How Gawker Media screens its interns.

3) Any news on Leola McConnell? I hope she is alive and doing well. I believe her and find her “stories” to be credible. What is the latest on her? Where can I get a copy of her books if she had time to write them?

4) John Cusack to appear in Hustler: “Actor and producer John Cusack finally unleashes his outrage at the Bush Administration and their disastrous failures: ‘The right-wing uses the aesthetics of authoritarianism. American patriotism is the cover for what they do.” In the context of his most recent movie, War, Inc., a dark comedy that skewers the Iraq War and American capitalism and greed, Cusack discusses with Hustler the goals, motivations and stresses of writing and producing such a film. The controversial War, Inc. was an international success starring Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Cusack himself. War, Inc. will be available on DVD October 14 at retailers nationwide.” Related: recent interview.

5) Seriously. You had DCist and Wonkette on the ropes and now you’re doing weekly posts about Larry fucking Sinclair? Are you going to relaunch the blog, or is it going to stay like this?

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Disgruntled politicos, envious bloggers, and rich Late Night Shots-ers, rejoice. Wonkette has been sold, and is no longer part of the stable of popular Gawker Media blogs. Gawker overlord Nick Denton has transfered ownership to current editor Ken Layne, citing low traffic and lacking advertising dollars as key reasons to unload. The site has been in upheaval for months now, experiencing a rotating menagerie of top editors and suspicious staff firings.

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And Big Head DC has obtained the resignation e-mail:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: joshua stein <josh@gawker.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2008 9:10 AM
To: joshua stein [REDACTED]

Dear all,

After nearly two years of glorious service to Gawker Media LLC, I am returning to civilian life. As such, I shall be relinquishing my Gawker email address.

Please send all love letters, advice, hate mail, personal correspondence and massively lucrative writing assignments to [REDACTED]

I’m also reachable via IM at [REDACTED] and as always, by phone at [REDACTED].

Yours,

JDS

Earlier: Should Ken Layne Have Fired Megan Carpentier?

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Whom did Gawker Empire owner Nick Denton pay for this glowing review?

Enough about Hillary: How’d things work out in New Hampshire for D.C.’s other It Girl — yoga-teacher-by-day, celebrity-stalker-by-night Liz Glover? Some weeks ago, we told you about her charming habit of asking VIPs to pose with her for a picture snapped by her pink-and-green plastic Barbie Polaroid — a great conversation-starter, it seems, with New York and Los Angeles types, but somehow a skunk-at-the-garden-party moment for high-powered Washingtonians. (Tim Russert shrank from her in horror at a “Meet the Press” gala.)

But on assignment in the Granite State as a videorazza for the political blog Wonkette, Glover’s had much better luck with the same sort of folks who cold-shoulder her here, scoring cute pix with Bill Kristol, Chris Matthews and Sean Hannity. What gives?

“There are a lot of people around asking to have their pictures taken with them,” she told us. “Maybe they think I might be a voter.” You know, just one of those earnest heartland types toting a pink-and-green plastic Barbie Polaroid.

Glover, the owner of Bikram Yoga Capitol Hill, had less luck with the candidates, getting closeups only with Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul – the latter one of the most viewed items on Wonkette this week, for some reason.

Related: Juleanna Glover’s Embarrassing Baby Sister

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…which is kind of ironic, no:

Maybe those Gawker Empire editors are the old and senile ones — not Andy Rooney.

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