So much nice press today, about Rebecca Schoenkopf becoming the new owner and editor of Wonkette, that politics/insanity online publication I’ve been editing for SIX YEARS. I am very much ready to do very different things, but I also love this site and have spent a good chunk of my life writing for it.

Anyway, here’s my comrade Martin Wisckol in the Orange County Register, writing about “Commie Girl” taking over Wonkette. He also includes this strange scene I just barely remember:

My favorite memory of Ken was catching a smoke outside Encinitas’ Daily Double Saloon with him and the incomparably talented Terry Wells. One of the other smokers asked what we did, then asked if it the government allowed us to write what we wanted. Ken explained at length the sophisticated network of censors that guided all journalism in America.

“Wow, that’s incredible,” our new friend kept saying as Layne took it deeper and deeper. “I would have never imagined that could happen.”

And here’s a wonderful Q&A with Becca at the SF Weekly. And the Romenesko thing today was a delightful surprise.

Choire Sicha sent a wise and brief note today. It said “Your Freedom: Embrace It.”