From the York Times’ feature on Wonkette:
In a relatively short time, she has drawn her share of detractors… Jack Shafer of Slate called Ms. Cox a “heaving puke” in a column that also lambasted Gawker.com, the New York-based gossip blog created in 2002 by Nick Denton, the publisher behind Wonkette.
Well, yes, he did headline the article “The Heaving Pukes Who Write Gawker and Wonkette.”
But he subheaded it “Nothing like an abusive headline to grab your interest, eh?”, and “lambasted” Wonkette and Nick Denton with such statements as:
“Several times a day
Day: April 17, 2004
Business o’ Blogs
Listening to Jarvis drive the “Blogging As Business” session at Bloggercon today on how to make money from blogs.
Best quote thus far (roughly transcribed) from Jeff, as he hurries to run through all the topics: “We’ve got about twenty minutes left and we [may have to] skip ‘ethics’… ”
Quips aside, it’s good stuff, and I look forward to reviewing the archived RealAudio/conference materials at a more leisurely pace post-facto…
Sex and the Sistani
Last week a few bloggers (see Marc Cooper; Kaus) noted with a snicker that Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani in Iraq has a website which, among other things, dispenses rather specific advice on which sex acts are permissable under the Ayatollah’s view of Islam.
Two noted examples of the Ayatollah’s Dr. Ruth-like pronouncements were the following Q and A’s:
ON ANAL INTERCOURSE:
Question: My question is, what does the holy book Quran and prophet Mohammad (pbuh) say about anal sex even if the wife agrees to experience this with her husband?
Answer: As deduced from narration anal sex is permissible; but it is strongly undesirable. Permission is bound to wife