There’s been a flurry of speculation and rumors spinning about in New York and D.C. over the future of Gawker’s Wonkette politics gossip blog. With Ana Marie Cox, the site’s editor off writing a novel, Gawker has propped the blog up with a series of guest editors. According to a source close to the Gawker family, it has been a forgone conclusion that Cox would be leaving Wonkette permanently after she finishes her book this…

Sometimes we wish Lockhart Steele would be down here in D.C. We think he’d have a field day analyzing this new development set to go up across the Union Station railyards in Northeast in an area we like to call NewYoFla, the area immediately to the east and west of the intersection of New York and Florida avenues near the railroad tracks. Anticipating the arrival of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University (that’s an awful…