I blew my roommate the fuck up last night because he started a conversation with "I guess I'm just depressed over this whole Gawker thing..." and when I mentioned the whole toddler sex tape thing he said "but that was just one guy!" without any acknowledgement that it was the editor-in-fucking-chief.

I know every blog on the planet wants to make this about bullshit first amendment crap but you know what? They've all needed to be bankrupted out of a job since fuckin' lucidending. Or the stolen iPhone. Or the entire ouvre of Analee Newitz.

I only wish it were painful.

Linking the shit out of this. My greatest hope of the day is that their "we're shutting down" page sets some sort of traffic record.