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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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    09/18/09

    In reply to The Nation Staying Afloat With Yard Sales
    I'm think the love/hate for the ivy league occupy the same space. I see it less as a spectrum and more a venn diagram with general populous sitting rather firmly in the overlap. The MSM, on the other hand, is so in the tank for the ivy league, they can't help but care about and run countless stories about them, while also taking advantage of the public's desire to see the rich/elite behave like everybody else and worse.

    Meanwhile, the people in the "love" category can sit back and tell themselves "They hate us for our freedoms" and be done with it.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to The Nation Staying Afloat With Yard Sales
    Robert Langdon copied and pasted the little paragraph from the bilious website into his text editor. Why Good Morning America? His hand, trembling, moved the mouse, clicked, and hit the space-bar. Suddenly, it was all clear: Suze Or man. "She’s a man, baby!" he screamed. It was the beginning of an investigation that would lead him into the dark underworld of Roman Catholic intersex lesbian financial advising.
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    09/18/09

    @iplaudius: Oh good Lord, don't tempt fate.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to The Nation Staying Afloat With Yard Sales
    I only know this from TVNewser and had to look for her twitter, so please don't think any less of me, but Orman has been heavily campaigning to win the Mediabistro poll since the beginning.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to The Nation Staying Afloat With Yard Sales
    Yes, but I'll take Suze's perkily reassuring lez face on TV in the morning before I'll take Jim Cramer's.
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    09/18/09

    @scroll_lock: Whose financial acumen would win in a food fight?
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    09/18/09

    @Aaron Altman: Suze wants to show you her Spaghetti-OHH face.
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    09/18/09

    @scroll_lock: Suze makes me miss Susan Powter and I don't know how I feel about that.
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    09/18/09

    @scroll_lock: Slow down there, Mario Andretti. I want to make sure I get good notes on this.
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    09/18/09

    @blix: Right -- Powter never bothered to explain what to do when you finally do "stop the madness"...and wind up just feeling empty inside.
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    09/02/09

    In reply to Hobo New York Times Cafeteria: Almost as Good as Popeye's
    He missed a perfect opportunity to declare the New York Times cafeteria eating area hot, flat and crowded.
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    09/02/09

    In reply to Hobo New York Times Cafeteria: Almost as Good as Popeye's
    You know what goes good with Fried Chicken? Orangina. Meanwhile, Blue Ribbon > Popeyes > NYT > KFC. And if we wanna get the South in here, Blue Ribbon > Bojangles > Popeyes, etc.
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    09/02/09

    @Foster Kamer: I would love to follow up on your recommendations, but I’m pretty sure fried food is banned in Southern California (where I happen to live).
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    09/02/09

    @Foster Kamer: If you're gonna get southern on us, FK, don't forget to rank Church's! And Wishbone! And Mrs. Winner's!
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    09/02/09

    @iplaudius: You little Westsider, you! Eastside LA = home of the bacon donut, Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles, and those delish Korean/Japanese deep-fried curry donuts. I am getting dewy-eyed just typing this.
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    09/02/09

    @Foster Kamer: I've been living in a Canadian chinatown for too long maybe, but I've grown to love fried chicken with young coconut water. It's delicious and sweet and refreshing and caribbean and everything you love with crunchy chicken.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to McClatchy DC Editor Accidentally Forwards All These Emails About Blackwater Murders
    The most telling part? "I'm on night cops rotation all this week since we no longer can afford night cops reporters."
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    08/05/09

    In reply to McClatchy DC Editor Accidentally Forwards All These Emails About Blackwater Murders
    Jack Shafer has the look of the professionally aggrieved.
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