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The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,...

There's been a flurry of speculation and rumors spinning about in New York and D.C. over the future of Gawker's Wonkette politics gossip blog. With Ana Marie Cox, the site's editor off writing a novel, Gawker has propped the blog up with a series of guest editors. According to a source close to the Gawker family, it has been a forgone conclusion that Cox would be leaving Wonkette permanently after she finishes her book this summer. Her ambitions? Television and punditry, which doesn't seem so shocking. So who would take over for Cox? Word on the street over the weekend had it that Gawker would tap deep-pocketed Kelly Ann Collins of the Washington Socialites to take over. But that sounded like crazy talk, but talk that wasn't necessarily out of the realm of possibilities.

Wonkette's (temporary) farewell:

So it turns out that after a publisher give you money, you have to give them a book. And for some reason, simply printing out dozens of posts about ass-fucking and stapling them together isn't acceptable. (Though we understand that approach works for some. So jealous!) Long story short: For the month of February, this site will be in the capable hands of Choire (KOR-EE) Sicha (SEEE-CHA). He's completely clueless about politics, incredibly shallow, and liable to post things with only the most cursory of fact-checks (and by "cursory" we mean "non-existent"). In other words, you'll hardly know the difference.