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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    07/28/09

    In reply to You Cannot Out-Meta Cary Tennis
    What an ass. It was SEVEN pelicans.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to You Cannot Out-Meta Cary Tennis
    Just doing rounds in my duly appointed position as Secretary-Treasurer of the Gawker Pro-Cary Tennis Brigade.

    For today, I'm going with an old one: There are plenty of forces in the editorial workplace that seek to turn one's writing into a homogeneous work product. There's nothing inherently wrong with that: I've often appreciated the uniformity of style and voice in a publication like Time. But I submit that it's still valuable when someone resists those forces and inserts a recognizable amount of personality into one's writing.

    Also consider that the advice column, as a genre, is probably one of the simplest for any periodical to initiate: Your readers give you half the content, for crying out loud. As a result, there are probably far more advice columns out there than can actually do good work, and I submit to you that most of these low-effort columns subside into a cookie-cutter style cribbed from Dears Ann and Abby. (Sorry, Emily Yoffe, whom I nevertheless esteem highly for other reasons.)

    I further suggest that Cary Tennis' columns illustrate something that's both useful and (deservedly) rare: How hard it is to try to inhabit another person's problems, as a means of analyzing them. That's got to be worth something, even if the advice fails. (In fact, maybe all advice should fail. Any takers on that one?)

    I also always liked John Leonard's book reviews. So can't we just classify our disagreements here as arguments over taste and leave it at that?
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    07/27/09

    @skahammer: Not when I've seen the guy say stupid, quite possibly harmful things to people with serious problems. And no, I can't give you a concrete example now, because it's been years since I stopped reading him in disgust. I sometimes feel the same way about other advice columnists as well (it's a genre I used to read a lot, don't ask me why, except maybe that it was soothing to recognize how perplexed we all are sometimes), but they have the saving grace of not being absurdly pompous, at least most of them. I did like him at first, for much the same reasons that you do, but went off him after one too many omphaloskeptic expeditions.
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    07/27/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Not when I've seen the guy say stupid, quite possibly harmful things to people with serious problems.

    Not a Sex Pistols fan, I take it.
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    07/27/09

    @skahammer: In fact, maybe all advice should fail. Any takers on that one?

    I don't want to see you anywhere near a suicide hotline. Or, for that matter, near anything of any practical use or meaning.
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    07/27/09

    @skahammer: Sex Pistols at least have that music thing going for them.
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    07/27/09

    @skahammer: Obviously not enough of one, since I don't get the reference. But then, I kind of think if you're using Sid Vicious as a guide for living, you may be doing it wrong.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to You Cannot Out-Meta Cary Tennis
    Please, God, i don't ask for much. But just this one, please listen. Get that horrible bag of slop off of Salon, please. There must be others out there who could run the freak show without all that vaporing on.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to You Cannot Out-Meta Cary Tennis
    That pretty much sums up the answer to the question "should I look for quality content on the internet?".
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    07/27/09

    In reply to You Cannot Out-Meta Cary Tennis
    OMG THANK YOU! Cary Tennis is a big part of why I stopped reading Salon. He's an incredible idiot, and a poster boy for a lot of what goes on at that publication, which seems, to me at least, to be variations on "My Navel Lint: An Appreciation".
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    07/27/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Ditto. Although the Gawker bits involving Tennis are pretty worthwhile. Maybe Richard can recap his columns along with NYC Prep and Real Housewives?
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    07/27/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Some days I ask myself if I want to blog and the answer is three rabbits staring intently at a watermelon patch.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Recent J-School Grad Cries to Cary Tennis
    Yeah, and J-school was way over when I went 35 years ago.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Recent J-School Grad Cries to Cary Tennis
    The ice cream thing worked out well for Ben & Jerry. Borrow some money from your folks and open an ice cream cart.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Recent J-School Grad Cries to Cary Tennis
    Cary Tennis tries very hard to sound insane. Sometimes, he pulls it off.


    I am sure that in person, he is a great, normal guy who wouldn't dare giving you bullshit advice to your face. However, having to satisfy the market that's "looking for something different", he has no choice but to write the most twisted crap that he can think of.


    Take me for example. I hate his fucking column. Yet, it's the only advice column I read, because I need obnoxious crap that I can criticize more than I need any actual advice on anything.

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    06/29/09

    @Niko Bellic: This reminds me: can we please bring back The Unethicist?
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