And this also intersects our new attention on Terms of Endearment– on this forum and others, your words will come back to haunt you. Worst of all are the personal touches which are quite helpful for everyday discourse, but out-of-context become off-putting.

But I must take Wonkette to task as no one else does. The original Wonkette and her replacement guys have been “made” by the revolution in communication technology. Most people like them– the personal democracy crowd, convening in NYC tomorrow– tend to promote digital communications for everybody. Public officials are people, too.

Would you believe that the Wonkette emerita, Ana Marie Cox, wrote an ode to the Blackberry for the Sunday Outlook of the Washington Post in March, and stuck around for a reader chat the next day? “Legend has it that the BlackBerry was first widely introduced into Washington’s media ecosystem in the wake of 9/11; in the midst of tragedy and confusion, BlackBerrys worked when conventional cell phones and e-mail often didn’t…”

Gee, it sounds like it would have been worse if Brown were one of those stick-in-the-mud, I-have-other-people-email-for-me executives.

As for the current Wonkers, the best they can come up, beyond reproducing the email with the subject titled “Resign” is this: “Feel free to take a look yourself, and send us anything particularly interesting.” That’s it? And nbody sent anything in. Worse then giving a headline which smacks of hypocrisy, the Wonksters have committed an even greater journalistic sin: laziness.