Via a comment to this post by Dana at CSPT, Pandagon has changed its disclaimer to reflect its emasculated (ha!) status:
Goodbye comical disclaimer. Now here’s the serious one. While this blog has many participants, the blog manager and one of the writers, Amanda Marcotte, works for John Edwards ‘08 campaign. You can read her in a professional capacity here. This blog is a side project and a hobby for all the bloggers. Everything written on here is the personal thoughts, jokes, and opinions of the bloggers and has no association with the Edwards campaign.
I wouldn't be surprised if Pandagon's readership dropped because of this obeisance to the phallus (a.k.a., John Edwards). Lefties don't really see what Amanda said as satire, anymore than the rightwingers (like me) who have quoted her ad nauseam do. It's just not as funny, interesting, truthful, or deceitful (depending on one's point of view) once there's this whimpering disclaimer designed to gain favor with the patriarchy (a.k.a, John Edwards).
Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted.
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