It’s a strange day in the blogosphere….
Matthew Yglesias agrees with John Derbyshire about the fallout of Michael Jackson’s trial. I agree with Derbyshire about the fallout from the results of Terry Schiavo autopsy. And Ana Marie Cox agrees with Derbyshire about homosexuality — no, just kidding on that last one. But Wonkette does factor into the general cultural weirdness of my ...
Matthew Yglesias agrees with John Derbyshire about the fallout of Michael Jackson's trial. I agree with Derbyshire about the fallout from the results of Terry Schiavo autopsy. And Ana Marie Cox agrees with Derbyshire about homosexuality -- no, just kidding on that last one. But Wonkette does factor into the general cultural weirdness of my day by contributing "Wonkette on Wonkette" for the University of Chicago Magazine -- in which I discovered the following:
Matthew Yglesias agrees with John Derbyshire about the fallout of Michael Jackson’s trial. I agree with Derbyshire about the fallout from the results of Terry Schiavo autopsy. And Ana Marie Cox agrees with Derbyshire about homosexuality — no, just kidding on that last one. But Wonkette does factor into the general cultural weirdness of my day by contributing “Wonkette on Wonkette” for the University of Chicago Magazine — in which I discovered the following:
[M]y first significant paycheck came from?believe it or not?Hustler, for a story of mine they published in Barely Legal magazine. I wrote it because a friend of mine was interested in getting actual women (as opposed to men pretending to write as women) writing for them. I wrote under the pseudonym Ana Marie Dix.
After all this, hearing that Katie Holmes will convert to Scientology really doesn’t faze me that much (though if you are still fazed, click here).
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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