New Year's treat

I know I haven't blogged in a month, but. . .

For the irreverent and wicked-tongued: David Lat to replace Wonkette!

The Filipino American blogger of Underneath Their Robes fame who had blogged anoymously as a sassy, chatty female attorney who went by the handle "Article III Groupie" (self-unmasking here; backstory here) has quit his job as an assistant US attorney in New Jersey. While penning as "Article III Groupie", Lat gushed over current Chief Justice John Roberts: "Judge Roberts is lookin’ super-hunky tonight, much younger than his 50 years. . . . The adorable dimple in his chin is making A3G dizzy."

He left Newark behind to replace Ana Marie Cox, the similarly vivacious and politically vicious (actual female) blogger behind Wonkette. For those of you out of the loop, Wonkette is the DC vixen (now with book promo) who dishes the daily dirt on our nation's capitol and delivered the Washingtonienne sex scandal scoop. (This is a Washington Post link, for not safe for work links, go google elsewhere!)

Suffice it to say that Washingtonienne, as a female hapa Senate staffer who was involved with multiple men in positions of power in DC (some in exchange for cash), raised numerous issues about power, class, gender and (I would argue implicitly, about race or at least exotic beauty) in our nation's decisionmaking nexus. She caused a big whoopdedoo, and a minor work stoppage at cubicles everywhere when her blog URL raced across computer screens in DC like defenestrated cats from the 5th story.

Methinks this will raise the hackles and catfight level back up to where it used to be at Wonkette - I did sorely miss the guttersniping and gossipy attitude. Here's a drink to continued premier snarkdom under David Lat.

Although, given his meteoric rise from Harvard to the US Department of Justice and now his move to best blog celebrity impersonating a woman, this definitely begs the question of: "What the hell do his parents think?!?!"