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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    12/17/09

    In reply to Steve Carell and Tina Fey Love Starring in Films Together
    Disney is doing the Yogi the Bear movie?
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    12/17/09

    In reply to Steve Carell and Tina Fey Love Starring in Films Together
    Well you have to blame the Vikings for naming her Frigga (a.k.a. Frigg). She is the wife of Odin and mother of Thor and Loki, among others.

    Besides, the bible has people named Ham and Nimrod.

    On top of this, the Mormons believe that Joseph Smith received the text of the Book of Mormon on golden tablets delivered by an angel named Moroni.
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    12/17/09

    @Arken: Moon Unit and Dweezil say 'you go' Arken!
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    12/17/09

    @Arken: I want to know who's playing Sleipnir, a name I have delighted in since finding it in a dusty Nordic Gods book in 1992.

    Just try it: Sleipnir! Sleipnir Sleipnir!
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    12/17/09

    @Arken: Frigga is gonna kick their asses at Gawker media.
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper Is a Giant Homosexual and Everyone Knows It
    The Foster thing is bull. Jodie Foster did NOT "basically come out" when she gave a gushy speech at a little non-televised award show where she threw in the name Cydney (usually a man's name) with a lot of other names without identifying who she was talking about. It was sort of something OK that she gave her partner and co-parent of 15 years that miniscule token act at a moment of guilt about cheating and being about to dump her, but it's nonsense she gets credit for being out or as good as out by authorities like Gawker that don't lower the bar like that that for anyone else.

    Anderson Cooper gave his boyfriend a more public and lasting personal thank you in his bestselling book, and I don't see anyone claiming that is somehow equal to coming out. Nobody counts Rosie Odonnel as having come out when she thanked Kelli at a major televised award show, they count her as coming out when she announced she's gay.

    A few media outlets acting on their own initiative decided to interpret Jodie's ambiguous mention of Cydney as Jodie coming out and reported it that way. You know they were asking Jodie for confirmation, statements and interviews and there was absolutely nothing from Foster. #andersoncooper
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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 Anderson Cooper Is a Giant Homosexual and Everyone Knows It
    This issue is really simple. As far as I can tell, Cooper isn’t hiding anything. If there’s reliable information that he has relationships with men, then the media just needs to treat that information the same way they would about any other media personality. News anchors’ personal lives aren’t often of much interest to the viewing public, but when it’s relevant, there’s no reason to treat it as a secret, open or otherwise.

    Meanwhile, that French guy’s nipples are hypnotizing me. #andersoncooper
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    10/30/09

    @dieresis: I would agree with your comment. I'm unclear on how this all this material on non-celebrity Maisani is relevant to anything, though.

    I think closeted gay news people, ALL closeted news people not just Cooper, should get the same treatment straight news people get in terms of love life coverage. So can we expect a big lay out on Olbermann's girlfriend and whoever closet gays like Robin Roberts, Shep Smith and Don Lemon have been doing? #andersoncooper
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    10/30/09

    @mostlymartian: No you can't. The private life of a newscaster is really not news. The only significant reason why Anderson Cooper's life is being discussed at all is because he is [probably] gay. So what! Well, as pointed out by porkchOp31, it may be nice when any positive successful gays come out. Otherwise, lay off! There is plenty of Rush Limbaugh stuff to poke fun at. #andersoncooper
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    10/30/09

    @mostlymartian: I don’t think there’s been a "big layout." I don’t see any major outlets reporting it as news.

    Obviously, gossip sites are a separate category. They’ll cover just about anything with scant regard for the truth or any other journalistic standard. Anderson Cooper is better known than the people you mentioned, and more attractive than most of them, so he inevitably gets attention from celebrity hounds. The added features of palatial vacations and hunky boyfriends guarantee excited chatter among a certain portion of the rumor-consuming public. #andersoncooper
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    11/01/09

    @komowkwa: It's not because he's gay. If it were the many other closet gay and lesbians in news like the ones I listed would be outed constantly, pushed to come out and having their love lives exposed here as well. They are also gay, in news and successful. Outing them would also increase gay visibility. The total focus on Cooper gives people the wrong impression he is the only gay in news. #andersoncooper
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    11/01/09

    @dieresis: I was referring to Gawker's recent Maisani articles and I would classify them as big lay outs for Gawker. In addition to this article, there was a big personal profile of Cooper's boyfriend with pics and a later article featuring a large as possible collection of photos with a request for more.

    I can see why Cooper would draw more coverage on this site, but not why he gets it all or his non-celebrity boyfriend gets this kind of scrutiny and exposure while other closet newsies' partners/dates/pick ups get none. The other glass closet cases would probably be better known if they got outed all the time like Cooper, and some of them have way more viewers than Cooper so they are already pretty well known. Surely some if not most of these successful people must have hot dates and cool vacations readers would find intriguing. If Gawker solicited readers for private stories and pics of the girlfriends of guys like Olbermann the way they are doing with Maisani I sure there would be plenty of readers for any juicy stuff they could turn up.

    If Gawker's going to be investigating and publishing about news people's love/sex lives and spotlighting non-celebrity partners, why shouldn't the discomfort and embarrassment be spread around? #andersoncooper
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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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    10/30/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper Is a Giant Homosexual and Everyone Knows It
    andy needs to grow a pair and just fing come out already #andersoncooper
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper Is a Giant Homosexual and Everyone Knows It
    People may be forgetting one factor when they wonder why many gay men think it's important that guys like Cooper come out: human nature. I think there's some streak of "Well I had to deal with the trauma of coming out, but you get the sweet celebrity life AND you don't have to actually do your coming-out shpiel?" present in arguments that "glass closet" gays should publicly come out.

    This is, however, more of an assumption than anything else. #andersoncooper
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper Is a Giant Homosexual and Everyone Knows It
    Now, on his BigMuscle profile, this fellow Darren claims to own Eastern Bloc.

    [www.bigmuscle.com]

    Darren? Or Benjamin? You be the judge. #andersoncooper
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper Is a Giant Homosexual and Everyone Knows It
    i just HATE the way gay people and gayness is written about around here. i just HATE IT. #andersoncooper
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