Professional Blogger?

I was flipping through all of my cable channels last night and came across an interview of Ana Marie Cox on Charlie Rose. I paused and was amazed to find out that Ms. Cox, aside from an unfortunate last name is a professional blogger. What? I said. She gets paid to do this stuff? She gets paid for her opinions? Well, yes and no. It's a little more complicated than that. Isn't it always? She blogs about D.C. gossip; who's doing what and to whom. One of her blogs is wonkette.com. It's fantastic. I do not consider myself to be a political afficianado, and I really enjoyed her blog. It's not dry or stiffly written. Of course the material politicians provide is often too good to be true. Check out the chops of this professional blogger.