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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    Image of Thistledew Thistledew
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of SybilDisobedience SybilDisobedience
    10/15/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan "Still Learning" Time, Fashion
    Am I the only one touched by the Boyzone story? I never listened to them and likely never will, but that's a sweet thing to do. #lindsaylohan
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan "Still Learning" Time, Fashion
    Joe Francis has no backbone... and he also has very creepy tic-tac teeth.
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan "Still Learning" Time, Fashion
    Shooting Valium: Because it takes tooo much effort to swallow those little V pills with a slug of water?
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/15/09

    @Swordfish: Must be the calories. #lindsaylohan
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    Image of applejuice applejuice
    10/15/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan "Still Learning" Time, Fashion
    Being named "celebrity mum of the year" by some British company seems to be a bad bad omen like no other. I remember when Kerry Katona was named that very thing, and she soon after spiralled out of control in every which way imaginable. There are other notable examples of this too.

    But hey, Britney has already done all that spiralling, so who knows with her?

    Really though, I just don't see the point of ridiculous titles like that, they are obvs meaningless...
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    10/15/09

    @applejuice: Mel "Scary Spice" B was also declared Spectacle Wearer of the Year, even though she didn't need glasses and wore them, ooh, ONCE for a photo op. Good times.
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    Image of goetz goetz
    10/15/09

    @barleyherb000001: Did this actually happen? If yes, it kind of changes my whole world view. #lindsaylohan
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/24/09

    In reply to Five Print-to-Online Crossovers, And How Many Will Survive. (Maybe None!)
    I'm ready for you, Neal Boulton.


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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    02/24/09

    @BadUncle: Ha!
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    02/24/09

    @BadUncle: Dad?
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    Image of Lux Alptraum Lux Alptraum
    02/24/09

    In reply to Five Print-to-Online Crossovers, And How Many Will Survive. (Maybe None!)
    A lot of people dislike the term bisexual because it references an attraction to two genders, which isn't particularly inclusive of people of transpeople or those who don't consider themselves to be male or female. Hence pansexuality, which is like having the capabiltiy to be sexuality attracted to anyone, regardless of sexual organs or gender identity.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/24/09

    @Lux Alptraum: Or a pan of brownies. Or blondies.
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    Image of AvenueOfTheStrongest AvenueOfTheStrongest
    02/24/09

    @Lux Alptraum: Can we vote on this? I see the value of the term but I think omnisexual is catchier.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Now I can't tell whether I'm bisexual or just hungry.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/24/09

    @skahammer: You are hungry. For blondies.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/24/09

    @AvenueOfTheStrongest:


    I'm not sure. The Omni was almost as unsexy as the Gremlin.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/24/09

    @Smitros: I always preferred Le Car.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/24/09

    @BookishLookish:


    And there are always the DeLorean kinksters.

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    Image of AvenueOfTheStrongest AvenueOfTheStrongest
    02/24/09

    @Smitros: Azteksexual.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/24/09

    @AvenueOfTheStrongest:


    Now that's just sick. Sometimes you may have to break down and legislate morality.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/24/09

    @Lux Alptraum: Also, being pansexual helps include robots in the spectrum. I love me some robots.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    02/24/09

    @AvenueOfTheStrongest:


    HA. Holy shit, that is just wrong on so many levels.

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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    02/24/09

    @BookishLookish: I want to start a band now, just so that I can call it "Hungry for Blondies".
    And we would all get great tattoos of pinup girls straddling outsized wrenches & so on.
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    Image of Ken Layne Ken Layne
    02/25/09

    @Lux Alptraum: One good thing about the Depression is maybe people will stop talking about their specialized fucking desires nobody could give a shit about.
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    02/24/09

    In reply to Five Print-to-Online Crossovers, And How Many Will Survive. (Maybe None!)
    With that description, Bastard Life is what Zamfir has spent all his life waiting for.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/24/09

    @Smitros: Goatfuckers Unite
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    02/24/09

    @BookishLookish:


    That's not the first time I've heard a statment like that.

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    02/24/09

    @Smitros:


    Um, "statement".

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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    02/24/09

    In reply to Five Print-to-Online Crossovers, And How Many Will Survive. (Maybe None!)
    Lame. The Daily Beast is already way more interesting than Gawker. Seriously, I don't know how you can live with yourself writing something so preposterously self-serving.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    02/24/09

    @lawyergay: Well, I'm writing what I think. If I'm wrong I guess it'll be clear in two years.
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    02/24/09

    @Hamilton Nolan:


    How can you possibly self-servingly favor your own higher-traffic, moneymaking employer? Can't you see that this man has totally subjective opinions that conflict with your totally subjective opinions? I have no idea how you sleep at night, Mr. Nolan.

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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    02/24/09

    @ADismalScience: Ha. Well put. I think it comes down to whether Gawker is written by actual or aspiring journalists or the "flacks" and "hacks" the staff here delights in lampooning.
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    02/24/09

    @lawyergay:


    Well, yes. The upper echelons of those flacks and hacks, as you put it, are a protected class that command relatively high salaries from dying organizations despite no proven ability to generate revenue. I love Gawker because it's an insurgency against the useless upper class of "name" writers who latch on to magazines and parasitically devour them while regurgitating a few out-of-touch columns per month. It also points out the inherent shittiness of PR morons who squat uselessly on the gains of the boom years.


    On the other hand, it tends to prove that just about anyone can write well given the platform, so the economics arguments the editors make about the death of newspapers always seem like missing the flaming forest for the dying trees.

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    02/24/09

    @ADismalScience: So just to paraphrase your argument, a journalist's worth is directly correlated to his or her "ability to generate revenue."


    As a concerned acquaintance, I humbly request that you watch the news every now and then. Your Randian worldview ought to have gone down in flames along with the stock market.

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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    02/24/09

    @lawyergay:


    I figured you'd jump to that. I even considered putting in a little comment such as "I am aware of the hypocrisy!"


    (And as for revenue-generation, I work for a cost center - my expectation is to reduce costs, which I do well. My business unit is profitable, and vastly more so because of my involvement.)


    Words are the product that a publication ultimately sells. Advertising is supported by virtue of the brand-power and readership of a publication. That brand and readership are created and cultivated by the writers on staff, and the ability of their output to get pageviews or induce purchases.


    Gawker has proven you don't need names to do that well if you have a strong brand and a quality platform. That's why Nick spend so much money on infrastructure! It's not Randian - it's just, you know, the business model.

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