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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Incredible Shrinking AOL
    Eeerily close to a decade since AOL swallowed Time-Warner
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/19/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I was really hoping that this thread would turn into a funeral commemoration about the good-olde days when AOL gobbled up Time Warner. I was working for the Fortune Group (which is part of Time Inc.) in 2000, at the precise moment when the merger hit, and I have some incredible stories.

    We all had stock options as part of our employee package, and were gleefully monitoring the skyrocketing stock prices. Also, in the spring of 2000, the Fortune mag publisher whisked ALL the national staff--editorial, ad sales, the whole crew, including assistants and such--on a one-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. (That was because the Fortune Group overtook People in ad revenue at the height of the dotcom boom, and the publisher wanted to celebrate that.)

    We all stayed in $500 rooms at the Four Seasons Manele Bay Hotel on the island of Lana'i. Everyone had rooms with an ocean view and got comped spa treatments. It's only 9 years ago, but it feels like it happened in some kind of mythical, fairy tale realm.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Incredible Shrinking AOL
    There's a "You've got Mail!" joke in here somewhere. There always is.
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    Image of atlasspanked atlasspanked
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Incredible Shrinking AOL
    You've got fail.
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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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    Image of Thistledew Thistledew
    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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    Image of ModestProposal ModestProposal
    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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    Image of romulus romulus
    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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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    Image of meerkat meerkat
    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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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    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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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    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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    Image of garbanzo314 garbanzo314
    09/05/09

    In reply to More Online Talent Departs the L.A. Times
    When did LAT become a viable competitor of CNN, which is 10x its traffic? Amusing that Stanton inserted this subliminal auto-back-pat.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/04/09

    In reply to More Online Talent Departs the L.A. Times
    Universal praise my assfoot. Blech.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    09/04/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: yeah i feel like i'm reading the fucking place mat at ihop. like they're proud of their newly found total lack of stories. i wish i had just saved papers from 10 years ago on days i didn't read it. la times was the shit back then.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    07/25/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    Yeah, but this turning undocumented migrants into pariahs thing? Still has legs.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    07/25/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    The part I don't understand is where the eeeevil Kenyan gov't, gifted with the prescience to plant an extra-terrestrial, vat-raised alien clone, lo 40 years ago, whilst using time travel to insert birth notices in two HA newspapers and using sleeper HA civil servants to slip in a "short" birth certificate, then just for giggles, naming it "Barack Hussein", can't also use their Witch Mountain technology to also put the "long" birth certificate.
    Because all the time-traveling, Area-51 using, human clone raising, sleeper agent staffing, Kenyan Secret Service agents that I know are professional enough to go the final mile and take care of such details.
    We really should give them their due. They may be Kenyan civil servants, but they're hard-working Kenyan civil servants.
    It's because "Birthers" hate The Government, isn't it?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    This story was always dead.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: And as long as we stick to our archaic belief that standardization across our country = too much power for the feds, then our elections, our records, every damn point of comparison we have in our country will always be held up to scrutiny. Case in point: Gore v. Florida, 2000.
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    Image of fisheyevision fisheyevision
    07/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: But WHERE is the death certificate?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/24/09

    @fisheyevision: Y'all are just trying to bait me into making a joke about a stillbirth, which will get me bitched out by a certain humorless commenter.
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