Why I love Online Journalism writing:
You get nicely technical, nitty-gritty articles on things like legal and political ramifications of CA Attorney General Bill Lockyer's response to the San Francisco Gay Marriages from Slate's Dahlia Lithwick--with great sentences like this:
"So, while Lockyer seems to be dragging his feet in California, Pryor was not exactly Speedy Gonzales when it came to ousting Moore."

We all know what she's talking about, it's fun, it's not cliche, and she isn't talking down to us. Good stuff.