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    Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating

    Which Media Megalomaniac is More Ridiculous?

    Freedom Fighter Conrad Black Calls Michael Wolff A Shitty Writer

    Conrad Black's Soul On Ice

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    Image of kjack kjack
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    What, no ice cream sandwich machine?
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    He's not doing time, he's doing the time of his life!
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    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    Black still observes the social nicety of not mentioning the crude shank hidden in his colon.
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    Image of freedc freedc
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    For the love of god, I hate reading bullshit like this. It makes the public think that prison is a country club and it is nothing close to that for the 2+ million people our country has locked up in human warehouses.


    The people I know and work with in county and state facilities don't even have motherfucking pillows. You're lucky if you can borrow the one fucking newspaper being shared among 200+ people shoved into a gym together in triple bunkbeds, there's certainly no fucking internet.

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    03/03/09

    @freedc: If it helps, I don't believe prison is like this for 99.99% of the population that's not incredibly wealthy and privileged. Does that make you feel a little better.


    Of course, my mental image of prison is basically Shawshank Redemption, so, that shows you my grip on reality. But I was definitely surprised by the e-mail access.

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    03/03/09

    @DahlELama: Shawshank Redemption is actually a very accurate portrayal of a prison, so you kindof have a pretty good idea of it.


    Our prison system is such a fucking sad mess and stories like this out of Camp Cupcake make things worse because it rightfully pisses people off but makes them think this is how every incarcerated person lives, and it isn't even close.

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    Image of Truculent Truculent
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    He forgot to add "performed daily afternoon blowjob on the unit's shot-caller and begged the Negroes who live next door to stop playing that awful music."
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    03/03/09

    @Truculent: Merci beaucoup.
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    Image of DaveCrabtree DaveCrabtree
    03/03/09

    @Truculent: You know, it's not really my thing, but if I were incarcerated I might give a daily blowjob if it got me some well-made Colombian coffee. Or if it got me from getting the shit kicked out of me. Whatever. I'm practical.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    He "lunches" at 11? Where does he summer?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/03/09

    @BadUncle: What a pompous idiot. He is so not invited to the hootenanny.
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    03/03/09

    @BookishLookish: Yay! You must be a Friend!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/03/09

    @BadUncle: There must be some benefits that come along with that.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    I know there's a Gawker rule against it, but I feel such posts are incomplete without the requisite prison sex joke. It's like hot cocoa without the marshmallows.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    Conrad, you dumbass, you forgot "learn finer points of drug trafficking." You'll need a job when you get out of the pokey, hon.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    03/03/09

    @BookishLookish: I'm still stunned he didin't get a pardon out of Bush at the 11th hour. I've met Conrad (through work) a couple of times, and - if possible - he is even more arrogant, obnoxious, and completely self-centered than you imagine. He really does believe he does everything right and as for the rest of us "ur doin it rong". I believe he is a psychopath like Madoff. Truly does not care about others.
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    03/03/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: But he loves his coffee brewed by his new Colombian pals!
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    03/03/09

    @BookishLookish: I would laugh my ass off if I could see him pretending to be buddy-buddy with the Colombians or whatever-ethnic-group in order to avoid beatdowns. "Your coffee is most excellent, and did I mention you look quite dapper today?"
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    03/03/09

    In reply to Conrad Black Finds Prison Rather Stimulating
    Someone get this jailbird a Twitter account!
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    12/17/08

    In reply to Which Media Megalomaniac is More Ridiculous?
    Newser is so sad and pathetic. It's an Old Media Guy's perfect idea of a hip, useful website. It almost makes me feel sorry for Michael Wolff. Almost.
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    Image of Sarcastro Sarcastro
    12/17/08

    In reply to Which Media Megalomaniac is More Ridiculous?
    Totally a trick question. The answer is Bill Jelavich of the Journal Register Co. Or Sam Zell.
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    12/17/08

    @Sarcastro: For what it's worth, I mean Bob Jelenek.
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    Image of icedog icedog
    12/17/08

    In reply to Freedom Fighter Conrad Black Calls Michael Wolff A Shitty Writer
    The lovely irony in all this (for Canadians) is that Black gave up his dull Canadian citizenship so he could be in the British House of Lords. If he had still been Canadian he could have taken advantage of a US-Canada agreement and served his time in Canada, and out of jail a lot earlier. It could only get better if someone at his prison would make him their bitch... if it hasn't already happened.
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    Image of Mr. Praline Mr. Praline
    12/17/08

    @icedog: Further schadenfreude comes from the fact that his ex-partner, Radler the Rat, is getting paroled.
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    Image of IHateWhatYouHaveOn IHateWhatYouHaveOn
    12/17/08

    In reply to Freedom Fighter Conrad Black Calls Michael Wolff A Shitty Writer
    Being and Nothingness? Is he Sartre now?
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    Image of blix blix
    12/17/08

    @IHateWhatYouHaveOn: He is in a No Exit situation at the moment.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @blix: Is it too cheap to make a Les Maines Sales crack?
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    Image of blix blix
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish: Not at all.
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    12/17/08

    In reply to Freedom Fighter Conrad Black Calls Michael Wolff A Shitty Writer
    Oh goody! He got the photos I sent him from Tom Cruise's Blackberry.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/08

    In reply to Conrad Black's Soul On Ice
    He used to be a gentleman and a scholar and a crook. Now he's washing dishes and peeing in a metal toilet and worried about all things carceral? Ho hum. Nothing radical here.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/24/08

    @BookishLookish: He was never a gentleman, and never a great scholar. It remains arguable how much of his own research he has ever done, although it's likely that he put his books together himself.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: My sarcasm has eluded you again?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/24/08

    @BookishLookish: Well, apparently. I'm going to go die now.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: Oh, don't do that. I'm PMing you.
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