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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    Madame, identify yourself. I was walking through a store with one of my kids when I culturally profiled a woman -- I identified her as a likely reader of Gawker. As we passed her, I said "Gawker" loudly. Her ears twitched and her head rotated 180 degrees; she began to track us. As we searched for aisle G1, which didn't exist, she pushed her cart up to us and offered to help us find the food coloring we were looking for. We gave up a little too soon, but there she was, pushing her arm through the sprinkles to the back of the shelf. She came up with the last box. I was so impressed I jokingly asked for her card. She said she didn't find food coloring professionally -- that in fact she was a producer. We all smiled our awkward smiles and then off we went to the register. And there she was, still with us, pushing her cart alongside, letting us know that she was stalking us, but in a cute way.

    Was this an authentic Gawker Stalker in the wild? (If you read this, leave me a reply just for fun). #recessionomics
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    Is that the Hipster Grifter in the top right-hand corner of the photo? #trendwatch
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/29/09

    @depardoo: Not every asian is the HG! Plus, she has too long of hair. #trendwatch
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    10/29/09

    @Conchie Birdie:

    Wait, are you saying that not every Asian is the Hipster Grifter?! #trendwatch
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/29/09

    @depardoo: Are you saying that every Asian is the Hipster Grifter? #trendwatch
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    10/29/09

    @Conchie Birdie:

    If I didn't know any better, I might suspect you of humorlessness. But I know better. #trendwatch
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/29/09

    @depardoo: Oh, doo, I know you know better. I think you may know me better, too.

    I wish I knew where I was going with this but, like many things, I don't.


    Speaking of the HG, I kinda wish she wasn't locked away so we could have some more fun Hipster Grifter tales to talk about. No more hotdog jokes, no hallways, no beards... it's a little bleak without her around.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    10/29/09

    @Conchie Birdie:

    I have to admit that I found her story fascinating. Very little compares to it. #trendwatch
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    10/30/09

    @Conchie Birdie: But wait... we can at least agree that all Asians look alike, right? #recessionomics
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    Image of romulus romulus
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    If you look at the LAT piece, you'll see that the 38% figure represents roughly 26,000 individuals and is a comparison with the 2007 figure. Which means the homeless have been slipping quietly out the back door over 48 months or so. One wonders where they went, of course, unless one actually lives in Southern California. Down there, everyone is just happy that they're gone. #trendwatch
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    Conchie Birdie promoted this comment romulus was starred romulus was unstarred
    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/29/09

    @romulus: Yeah, well they're all up here, so thanks. #trendwatch
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    What this country needs right now is Shirley Temple and the Department of Amusement she helped the government create in the classic Stand Up and Cheer. Everyone would feel oh so much better! #trendwatch
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    10/30/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Or a remake of The Gold Diggers of 42nd Street, that film always makes me happy. #recessionomics
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/30/09

    @pony_express: A very anal correction: there is the movie 42nd Street, and then there are Gold Diggers of Broadway (a forgotten 1929 musical), followed by a series with Gold Diggers of 1933, 1935, and 1937. Thanks for reading. Now I will go back to alphabetizing my vinyl record albums and lining up my pencils after sharpening them all to the same length. #recessionomics
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    Ugh! I hate those days waiting in the park! You see all the same people and you have to keep acting like you've got some place nearby and that's the reason why you're always in this Walgreens. #trendwatch
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    Image of LA0811 LA0811
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    That yogurt story is about an event that occurred in 19991. #trendwatch
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    m4ximusprim3 promoted this comment LA0811 was starred LA0811 was unstarred
    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    10/29/09

    @LA0811: Holy shit. How did they get news from the future? #trendwatch
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    10/29/09

    @LA0811: Yeah, and I'd do it again, if I had the chance. One of the country's best, maybe. #trendwatch
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    Image of LA0811 LA0811
    11/02/09

    @m4ximusprim3: I cannot reveal my future sources. #recessionomics
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    Well of course... first we had "discouraged workers" that began to disappear from the rolls, now we've got "discouraged homeless." #trendwatch
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/29/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Those aren't homeless, those are Free Range Citizens. #trendwatch
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    10/29/09

    @Smitros: Please stop using such derogatory verbiage! We refer to ourselves as "Non Tethered Inhabitants" #trendwatch
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/29/09

    @Smitros:

    Doesn't it look like the lady in the photo is attempting to feed him like a duck? #trendwatch
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/29/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Now that you mention it, yeah. Some people just don't recognize opportunity when it comes and knocks. #trendwatch
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    Image of goetz goetz
    10/29/09

    In reply to America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
    The homeless just aren't homeless anymore. They have taken to the internet to steal all the newspaper jobs. It's the Homeless Cycle. #trendwatch
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    Image of Claire Keaveney Claire Keaveney
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    People don't have a basic human right to live in NYC. Give it up, people! Suck it up, learn to friggin' drive, and get yourself a nice apartment in the burbs. #jonahgoldberg
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    allyzay promoted this comment Claire Keaveney was starred Claire Keaveney was unstarred
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    10/27/09

    @Claire Keaveney: You don't have a basic human right to a car. Stay in your fucking suburbs. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/27/09

    @Claire Keaveney: some people are born here you know. if they don't have a basic right to, you know, a place to live, do they have a basic right to some funds which will allow them to move? Or were you offering to pay that out of pocket? #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of krudd krudd
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    2006: a broker, unconcerned with his borrowers' ability to repay their loan, counsels a landlord that her property value is projected to go up every year so she should enjoy his equity now! The landlord, high on optimism about said property values, enters into an adjustable rate mortgage with a high loan-to-value ratio and buys a new car.

    2009: the renters, who had nothing to do with the ill-fated transaction lose their heat and water before finally being evicted.

    See- it's funny! #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of automata automata
    10/26/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    I don't know what Jonah Goldberg found funny about this story. But what I find ironic (if not actually funny) is that these deplorable conditions are a direct result of rent control, as nearly all economists will tell you. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/26/09

    @automata:

    There's a saying that monetarist economists use about public subsidy: "Whatever you pay for, you get more of." That may or may not be true. But at some point you have to wonder what amount of public money and investment is "solving the problem" or "fulfilling the obligation" and what amount isn't. New York spends a fortune on housing for the poor, and yet there are still poor - but does it follow then that they're simply not spending enough? A lot of liberals say "QED tax more" but I'm not convinced that solves a thing. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/27/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Perhaps it's about spending money effectively. To wit, there are a lot of public/private partnerships that achieve success - and a modest profit for the banks and insurance companies participating. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of justinis1badmofo justinis1badmofo
    10/26/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    Goldberg and his ilk take pleasure in the misfortune of the poor, especially if those individuals live in a place Goldberg deems "liberal." He's another one of the shallow thinkers of the Right, believing in tiny government when it suits his interest, and then big government when he needs it. #jonahgoldberg
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    10/26/09

    @justinis1badmofo: Doesn't he live on the Upper West Side? Like, grew up there? Fascinating to think of the psychology there, that he found the mostly liberal people there , and interacting like a normal human being with them, so scarring that he stuffs his face in a darkened room and writes crap like this. No doubt liberals are to blame for his utter social failure. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of justinis1badmofo justinis1badmofo
    10/26/09

    @Baroness: I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me. You see people who are just contrarian by nature, and their rebellion is simply based on being the opposite of what they believe their surrounding community represents, because they always felt like they didn't fit in, or whatever. Instead of taking that feeling of being "different" and being ok with it, people like Goldberg try to become "part of something" by being part of this imagined community that is diametrically opposed to the community where they felt disconnected.

    Ok, amateur psychoanalysis is over. But still, Goldberg is a dick. As an aside, I think John Podhoretz is from the UWS too. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of Sir Winston Thriller Sir Winston Thriller
    10/26/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    Mr. Goldberg is a fibroid that learned how to talk. #jonahgoldberg
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    BettyCrocker promoted this comment Sir Winston Thriller was starred Sir Winston Thriller was unstarred
    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/26/09

    @Sir Winston Thriller: Or a fistula. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/27/09

    @BettyCrocker: Perhaps a chancre? #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/27/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Maybe a bedsore. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    10/26/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    This is a man who invented a completely specious theory that identifies 1930s fascism as a movement of the left. So I guess his sense of everything is pretty skewed.

    And, no I don't think his "point" was that the poors were once again invented "rights" designed to make conservatives deal with their under-developed sense of public ethics. It's that the cretins who play the landlord "game" in New York often do so in ways that force people to live as do the poorest in, say, Calcutta.

    What's funny to me is that, once again the U.N. is documenting our nation's slide into third world status and all the hyper-entitled "right" can do is laugh. #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/26/09

    In reply to Jonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
    I think the joke is that even New York is criticized for not doing enough to clothe, house, and feed the poor. Context? Calcutta? And where do the indigent sleep in Congo?

    Then there's housing being treated as an inalienable right in the midst of a crisis created by a philosophy of home ownership. You're Entitled! So let's tax and overcome shitty market forces - which admittedly don't serve the poor - and build more projects. Which are great I guess!

    We'll have the discussion about what to do about 17 billion humans in a few years. Hint: there will be weeping and shouting then, too, from ever more voices. How high can projects be built, anyway? #jonahgoldberg
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    10/26/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: UA, I value your opinion. You're the king among the few non-Progressive commenters on this site. So, with all due respect, what is the alternative? Should we let the poor and indigent roam the streets of New York? Or, lest they blight our gentrified neighborhoods, ship them off to build shanty towns for themselves in the marshes of the Meadowlands? Would that be Malthusian enough? #jonahgoldberg
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    10/26/09

    @atlasfugged:

    The problem is unsolvable. For my part, I'll continue to watch "Life After People" with something approaching glee as the planet warms and we pile more and more pyramid onto the pin-point. #jonahgoldberg
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    10/27/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: That's the spirit. #jonahgoldberg
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