4 Things I Meant to Write About But Haven't Yet
What a tense and terrible and exciting morning it's been. When I began this job at 7 a.m., I had a list of about 3 topics I knew I wanted to cover. Unfortunately, I ran through that list in two hours or so and was forced to write about Donald Trump by lunchtime.
What follows is an all-but-random selection of issues that I haven't had the time to address since beginning my week as Guest Editor:
1. Radar. I've never read nor seen it, and am not entirely clear on what it is. Which has not stopped my commenting on anything else thus far. Unfortunately, once I received an email thanking me for not covering Radar, I knew I'd missed my chance.
2. When I called Judith Miller a "sleazy hoe-bag," that was gratuitously nasty and inappropriate in a site that many of us look to as a guardian of civil discussion. She is, in fact, a vigilant guardian of the First Amendment and a pathological liar.
3. If you've been noticing more and more unfamiliar bylines on Gawker, it's no accident. The increasing costs of running a couple websites have increased this site's reliance on foreign sweatshop labor. I am actually an 8 year-old Vietnamese girl. Kind Mr. Denton has furnished me with a laptop and promised to send my family a carton of Marlboros if I "blog" about the "Fabian Basabe." We will sell those Marlboros for rice. It has been a bad harvest.
4. In writing about Daniel Okrent's final column, which I characterized as boring and smug, I neglected to give Mr. Okrent a chance to respond. I see your smugness and raise you laziness. -AP
