We’ve been following Dave Weigel for awhile — first at the Washington Independent, then at WaPo, where he recently moved to continue his coverage of wingnuts and teabaggers.

Now we’ll have to find him somewhere else, because he just resigned today.

Turns out Dave was also active off-blog — at “Journolist”, a private email list for shop talk. Fishbowl DC decided to liberate some of his messages there, two of which we find delightful:

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“Conservatives have maintained their leading position among U.S. ideological groups in the first half of 2010. Gallup finds 42% of Americans describing themselves as either very conservative or conservative. This is up slightly from the 40% seen for all of 2009 and contrasts with the 20% calling themselves liberal or very liberal.” [Gallup]

• The pig head is being dry-cleaned.
• Mutant Centaur.
• Lost directions to Equus LARP party.

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“The more interesting point to be made about Palin is how toxic she’s become among the broader electorate. In fact, buried in the internals of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is an amusing number: A majority see a Palin endorsement as a clear negative.” [Plum Line, via Political Wire]

Coincidence? Or the hand and judgment of God?

Or — we’re just spitballing here — criminal recklessness?

Nah. Couldn’t be that.

Is oil catastrophe fulfillment of Genesis prophecy? [WND. Of Course.]

David Jungerman had a farm,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

And on that farm he took in $1 million of government subsidies,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

With a price support here and a price support there,
Here’s a price support, there’s a price support, everywhere a price support.

David Jungerman is a fucking hypocrite,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

Farmer who put up sign claiming Democrats are ‘party of parasites’ has taken $1 million in farm subsidies [ThinkProgress]

To be honest, we don’t trust Gawker Media these days. What began as a charming collection of rascals has evolved into a ravenous linkbait machine. Anything that appears in one of their blogs has to share the grain of salt we usually save for Politico: It may be true, but we’d feel more comfortable with a second source, from some joint that’s not hopelessly devoted to pageviews.

Most of the time we just ignore Gawker Media entirely — it’s been a long time since we frequented any of Nick Denton’s establishments. But sometimes they still cross our path, especially now that their posts are being syndicated elsewhere. (Is it really a wise use of TPM’s investment capital to run Gawker crap that sullies its growing reputation?) And they do show up on occasion in Memeorandum and its sister sites, the Google News of blogger chat.

Which is how we stumbled across Jezebel’s story on the Daily Show:

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