23/6 Calling it Quits

It's the end of the road of 23/6. Huffington Post will take over the site now. Here's their last post.

Our work here is done

from 23/6

Reader(s?), our work here is done. Barack Obama is president and comedy has become less necessary. Sunday, February 1st is our last day on the internet- in this incarnation. On Monday, the starving orphan 23/6 will be adopted by the Huffington Post, where it will be fed nourishing internet ads, three times a day. Dickipedia and The Room will follow, but most of us in news and video will not.

We had a fun 15 months. We discovered that we love abortion almost as much as we love our first-born child. (And let's face it, so do you.) We warned the gays to wrap that shit up, and we felt bad for Ted Haggard's wife. We helped you read a David Brooks column. We saw Hillary get frustrated and we failed as women- but not as much as MoDo, who we tried to understand. We reminded people that Cindy McCain had a past and we swiftboated Democrats. We wondered how Barack Obama could beat a war hero, and we defined rahmmar. We changed Hitler, then we stared at his ball.

We saw potential vice-presidential candidates, both Republicans and Democrats, IM one another obsessively.

Then along came Sarah. Oh, Sarah of Wasilla, with her secessionist Eskimo husband, her dirty-secretary outfits, her ex-brother-in-law, that University of Idaho grammar and of course, her adorable special needs baby, who we offered to rescue. She gave Henry Kissinger (and us!) his first woody since the bombing of Cambodia. Sarah became a grandma at 45 and a porn icon at 44. She made us ask ourselves, are we smarter than a 5th tier veep candidate? Would things have been different for 23/6 if she'd won? Maybe one day, we'll know. Until then, thank you, Sarah Palin.

We saw Joe Biden prepare for his debate, we watched all three of Obama-McCain debates at once. We investigated John McCain's economic policy and we savaged the liberal media. We dug in for end-times, then we went negative. We felt the effects, then we went for a long drive. We tried to imagine ourselves as Minnesotans, and we wondered what the hell the rest of you were thinking. We tried to kill Joe the Plumber.

We had fans. Gawker loved our Keith Olbermann piece (so did Keith!). CNN's Rick Sanchez got us too, but MSNBC's Chris Matthews didn't even look. We got hacked by Monica Crowley and dismissed by Greta Van Sustern. We got our war on, and we got stuck in an elevator. We wondered what the world would be like if Democrats were Republicans, and we looked back fondly upon the reign of Boy George.

Finally, we celebrated America's youth. Because ultimately, we did it all for the children.

Palin '12!