KEN LAYNE
I am editor of this site:
Wonkette
And write weekly for:
True/Slant
AOL Political Machine
Other recent stuff:
New York
LA CityBeat
NYT Magazine
NYMag.com
RADAR Magazine
Wonkabout
Old site from 2006-08
This site is just links to stuff I write for various places.
Cannon Beach, Oregon.
“ Take a look at the heterosexual married people around you. Seen any of them playing ‘Your Song’ in a duck suit at Central Park? I thought not.
Is Gay Marriage a Threat To Our Culture? — AOL Politics Daily
“ As I mixed the American PAAS egg dye and put all the English Cadbury chocolates in one basket — a basket made in the Philippines and purchased from my local Pier 1 — I could not help but wonder: Where does Easter come from?
Easter: America’s Global Holiday — The Global Internationalist
Two Dogs, One Desert.
“ The lower classes and uneducated swarms seem to be the primary target for this “collection by coercion,” in which the Senate and House of Representatives have dug in their heels and embarked on a crusade to take all the tea bags from our most humble citizens.
Why Is the Obama Administration Seizing Our Tea Bags? — AOL Political Machine
Coonhound.
“ Why wouldn’t the president put the Beatles music on his Queen’s I-Pod? There is more than enough Beatles music to fill the half-hour — I personally have more than a dozen Beatles albums, each with at least a half-hour’s music. I’m no AIG accountant, but by my calculations that is more than six hours of the finest British pop music.
Why Won’t Obama Honor Our Queen? - AOL Political Machine
Hi goats.
“ As the nation waited in increasing agitation for America’s president to converse with our best journalists, he gleefully pointed to almost anyone — a Mexican, a military reporter! — until, spent by this frenzy, he turned away from the gathered Fourth Estate and strode down the hall. I simply do not care for his attitude.
Does Barack Obama Hate Our Important Newspapers? - AOL News
“ Even in the miserable depths of the 1930s’ Great Depression, there wasn’t much taste for a violent overthrow of the capitalist system. And if the lean, hungry Americans of that era couldn’t get it together, there is very little chance today’s bloated couch potatoes are going to do anything at all — except whine, on the Internet.
Greatly Depressing: Will USA Go Communist? - AOL Political Machine
Boy, dog.
“ Fat sex-creep Rush Limbaugh peaked with 20 million listeners in 2003 (all downhill since then!), while Paul Harvey peaked with 22 million. And while Paul Harvey was long mocked by hipsters and comedians, he sure wasn’t hated.
And Now You Know … He’s Dead - AOL News
