In addition to being the kind of person to whom you will always lose a dare, Megan Carpentier has a useless Masters degree from Georgetown, a B.A. from Boston University in German Lit and Sociology (yes, she knows that this is why she ended up a blogger) and about 7 years of experience in lobbying the federal and a variety of state governments. She also spent a while writing an anonymous column for Wonkette on the realities of lobbying, and then writing a column for Jezebel, too. After that, she thought it would be a brilliant idea to blog full-time for Wonkette, but that didn’t work out so well. So, now she has her own random site and freelances and wonders why the hell she thought it was a good idea to be a “professional” blogger, but she’s sure it was some combination of mental illness, alcohol and a deep-seated dislike of the world. Or, you know, maybe just the alcohol. Email

Greg Wasserstrom nips at the periphery of cultural relevance. A long-time intern at Wonkette and short-time stand-in person at Gawker, Greg has much commentary to provide but apparently not in a voice any established outfit is willing to entertain. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and is also a photographer. Email

Hunter Walker is the Assistant Editor of Gridskipper. He mostly writes about sex, booze, and Asian food. Hunter was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives today. Hunter survived the Giuliani years by being a white person. His interests include photography, socialism, the New York Yankees, and late 80’s/early 90’s dancehall reggae. This bio post marks the first time Hunter has written about himself in the third person. It made him feel kind of dirty. Email

Jason Cox lives in Chicago and is a Midwest boy through and through. He is a bit of a shit starter and likes to think that people are basically good, even in the unbelievable mountain of evidence to the contrary. He can be naive and insecure, funny and scathing, angry and nurturing, spacey and obsessive compulsive - sometimes all at once. And he has opinions. Which are like assholes, and need stimulation! That is the saying, right? He also hates debates and elections and political speeches, and yet one of his happiest moments is the fact that in the 90 seconds of Bush/Kerry debates he watched in all of 2004 he managed to catch “Don’t forget about Poland!” You were either there, or you weren’t. Oh, and his picture is in that book “Sorry Everybody”.

The FlyingChainSaw survives by knawing on the skulls of small animals he catches in a railway crossing where he lives in a dying industrial town in the east. When he is not sleeping, he shouts obscenities at passing cars and trucks, the drivers of which sometimes stop and take dictation and instructions to post his hallucinatory ravings on the Cynics’ Party web log. He waits patiently for Dwight Eisenhower to rise from the grave and execute Cheney and Bush with a fucking log splitter.

Kaila Hale-Stern keeps an eye on comments during the day for Gawker Media. In her free time, she likes to think about the cyclical nature of history, the farcical nature of the American dream, coffee, and bit players in the French Revolution. Kaila once kept a blog about impeaching the President for his laundry list of crimes until sitting alone with her outrage gave her Seasonal Affective Disorder. She is from New York and lives mostly on the internet.

Nojo is a mystery wrapped in an enigma cooked in a microwave and topped with a fluffy meringue. Our secretive Sandy Eggo Bureau Chief claims he once killed a man, wrote Catcher in the Rye, and performed in one of Spin’s Worst Bands in America, and while one of those claims can be documented, we have strong doubts about the other two. Originally from Oregon, his childhood heroes include Chuck Barris, Gene Rayburn, and Wink Martindale. Email