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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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    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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    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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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    Working for a pranksterish rapscallion sounds stressful, but fun. Like the big bad boss might hide your paycheck "scavenger style" or spike the coffee machine with acid.
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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    I doubt Mr. Denton has begged a female for anything in his life.
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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    piss-taker-outers


    Yeah, you fucked up Waldorf. What's wrong with "piss-taker"?

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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    What strikes me more than anything else about the VF piece is it's length: over 7,500 words. That's a lot of ink spilled over one relationship.


    How does that compare to the length of Emily's own NYT magazine piece, mostly about her past relationship with Josh Stein? I'ver prepared a comparative chart with the answer: Click here and find out.

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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    04/30/09

    @MisterHippity: Excellent chart and analysis. Another way to pad is to run a long string of non-exemplary commenter insults along the lines of "you suck" "what a tool" and "go jump off a bridge, why dontcha?"
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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    I just noticed that I lost my star. Is it because I said something objectionable about Gawker? (Or more likely, Gizmodo?) Damn you, Denton!
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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    I remember that video and she has nothing to be ashamed of. When I saw it, all I thought was: "Huh. Good for her."
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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    It's gotten so that I can't even bare to look at a clafoutis these days.
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    04/30/09

    In reply to The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)
    All I would like to say is that Vanity Fair publishes some VERY well-written shit. That article covered a lot of ground that I followed closely at the time, and included a few things I had forgotten or never noticed, but still managed to contextualize and summarize the facts and allegations into a thesis about the quality of writing on the internet. Damn good stuff. Bravo!
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