I think the moment I realized the whole blog thing was getting out of hand was when I read that some blogs are now hiring criminal lawyer interns. That's right, if you're tired of making copies and fetching coffee while putting up with the constant stream of Clinton/Lewinsky/intern jokes at your current internship, why not join the soon-to-collapse world of internet blogging?! Fame and fortune can be yours (except for the fortune part. Oh, and the fame part). Gain valuable experience surfing the web and typing! Learn skills such as cutting and pasting, using webpage forms, and bookmarking! Don't like to commute to an office? No problem: there is no office!

Seriously though: Are bloggers really that saturated with work that they need extra help to find links and write witty one-line comments? The most hilarious part of the Gawker help wanted advertisement, for instance, (besides, of course, the requirement that the candidate have "journalistic ambitions") is that they need "familiarity with IM". This is a job?

It's not just Gawker however. Gizmodo is looking for people to troll the internet for pictures of new cellphones. Andrew Sullivan, the man liked by neither the republicans nor the democrats, has an intern to provide him with material. I couldn't really determine if these interns actually get paid, though I'd put some good money on "no".

Ignoring everything else, the funniest part of all this is that somewhere out there a grandmother is asking her grandson what they did this summer, to which they get a succinct reply: "I interned for Gawker!"