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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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    10/28/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Why is anyone giving the guy shit over this? He in fact didn't whine, he made good-natured fun of himself the whole time, including characterizing himself as whining when he patently wasn't. I don't have a TV either, for pretty much exactly the same reason Ames gives -- I suck at making big ticket purchases and put it off forever. I'm a total junkie of TV, but I'm getting it off Hulu and Netflix for the time being. Maybe I'm biased because of this, but he seems lovely to me. #jonathanames
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    10/29/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: He was whining, but with enough self-awareness that he was whining to try to play it off as self-aware joking whining but with just enough real whine that people would get the point that he was actually whining. You know, whining. Or something.

    The good news is that with so much discussion of his whining, semantic satiation has blasted the concept straight out of my mind, so now I don't think anyone is whining at all. #jonathanames
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    10/29/09

    @celery: Do you actually know him, or have access to other information than what's included here, or is this just your alternative reading? I don't mean this in a combative way, I'm just curious. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Seriously? The man creates and sells a TV show to HBO, and it never occurred to him to go buy a TV so that he might actually watch it?

    What a moron. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Who is that handsome 19th century Jewish man?
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    Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith promoted this comment SanjivaniChrysippus was starred SanjivaniChrysippus was unstarred
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Just FYI, Ames totally has a TV. I have a friend who housesat for him once. Fucking, precious, oversharing douche. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    @JacquesPaysan: Merci for the clarification. Now I don't feel so bad for judging him to be a douche just based on his cap and studied "thinker" pose in the pic above. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    I'm going to get a twitter account and start hinting about a pony. And a new mac. #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @ms_priestypants: Laugh if you like, but I've gotten a digital camera, a netbook, and a $180 power cord just by whining on Twitter. #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @raincoaster: what? really? because I was only half kidding about that pony. #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @ms_priestypants: Really. I occasionally blog The Swag Report. Oh, and two weeks ago I got a swanky $100 brunch with a dashing explorer at a fine hotel, partly because of whining. One of my first online experiences was getting flown across the country and driven to meet Viggo Mortensen. That was only half whining, though; the other half was making amusing dirty jokes, also not a skill I thought I could monetize. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Dear Mr. Ames,

    Your TV show needs snappier pacing and editing. The wit is there and the jokes are there but they shockingly fall flat.

    Us #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Ames, you're a writer. Words are your sacred weapon. Why do you abuse your weapon as such? Does it save you that much precious time to lower-case "i" instead of capitalizing it--"I"--as per proper written English language conventions? Does it save you that many seconds if you DON'T capitalize the first letter of a sentence?

    ..While we're at it.
    "JASON Schwartzman," not "Jonathan Schwatzman." #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @snugbug: He's just that old school:
    "Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250 to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts. "

    source [www.etymonline.com] #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @therealgoogle: What a great little nugget.. Maybe Ames should write piece of fiction whereby he imagines what William the Conqueror would have tweeted during the Battle of Hastings. Lowercase "i" and all. (Gaah, this wouldn't work because William was/spoke French.. We would need a speaker of Anglo-Saxon as the protagonist..) #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @snugbug: or a Twitterama (the Battle of Hastings in four twits)

    williamconq: @haroldharold, i see you're standing @ridge #holdingposition
    haroldharold: @williamconq show self or u dead?
    williamconq: @everyone, here i am waving hat, lol #fightsux
    haroldharold: @normandyhorses, thy damn of it, more troops! #death

    Williamconq was, of course, translated with babblefish #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @therealgoogle: By Odin's bones and the robes of the druids, that was brilliant!

    [Later..]

    haroldharold @all: i need to appease the Gods with the sacrificial body and bounty of an ox to ensure win. #desperate

    williamconq @haroldharold: LOL, a-hole, it's going to be called "beef" once my language takes over your language! #passthepâté
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    10/28/09

    @snugbug: It's Twitter. Maybe he's not pompous enough to give that much of a crap about it. Sometimes he capitalizes, sometimes he doesn't. Or maybe he's ahead of his time -- I think there's a good case to be made for not capitalizing i, actually: [www.nytimes.com] #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I admit I loved that Caroline Winter NYT piece you linked to, even though I disagree with her thrust. It's true that language is a living body that evolves constantly, but the capped "I" thing is quite a lovely relic from an Anglo-Saxon root language. It deserves to be maintained, especially since contemporary English is such a simplified Germanic language--it uniquely has un-gendered nouns, for example. I don't even know what I mean here, I'm just happy to be talking nerdy stuff that excites me on a dead thread..
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    He seems tortured by the sudden prickly suspicion that there are millions of thoughtful people such as himself who will refuse to watch his quirky little show, even if they are given free televisions.
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