"Ana Marie Cox, a woman who knows her way around a scandal, was having none of it. Having just quit her gig as Wonkette, the scandal-sniffing blogger who bent the rules every time she stepped up to the keyboard, and with her first novel about to hit the stores, she nursed a large Bombay Sapphire martini and made her way through a shrimp cocktail, a filet and potatoes at a back table of the nearly empty Palm, Washington's longtime power restaurant.
In her blogging persona, Ms. Cox would have been in pajamas in her apartment on Connecticut Avenue, trafficking in tips and rumors about all the Senate aides quaking in their cubes. But after two years of being the skunk at the garden party of Washington's journalistic community, Ms. Cox has said goodbye to all that. True, she checked her Treo for updates, but it was mostly for details on the various readings she has scheduled for "Dog Days," her roman à clef, give or take, about a different scandal. It is being published Thursday. "
"Way to go babe!" as she might have said. She may have been a bit potty-mouthed and obsessed with doings inside the beltway - but I will miss her scabrous but cheerful take on US politics...
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