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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    10/14/09

    In reply to Nat Finkelstein, 1933-2009
    The fact that you did not capitalize "club kids" makes me want to pay you for this post, Pareene. Thank you.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Nat Finkelstein, 1933-2009
    Hmmm... Finkelstein was great, but I wouldn't call him THE Factory photographer. I thought that honor went to Billy Name.
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    09/26/09

    In reply to Susan Atkins, Manson Girl
    There were quite a few Manson children, whereabouts unknown. Charlie had several of his own. Out there. Somewhere.
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    Image of SudeviUsopp SudeviUsopp
    09/25/09

    In reply to Susan Atkins, Manson Girl
    I appreciate John Waters, but I don't understand pursuing any relationship or friendship with these women - on any level. I know that he embraces and celebrates the seedier and more transgressive elements in our culture in his films, but these individuals or neither marginal nor misunderstood, they did a very evil thing, as evil as evil can be.

    They tortured and murdered seven innocent people, and expressed no remorse nor fully admitted to their wrongdoing in a public forum. My mother was 9 months pregnant with my older brother,her first child, in August 1969, and I cannot help imagining her murder in the place of Sharon Tate.

    I understand that John Waters keeps a painting by John Wayne Gacy above the bed in his guest bedroom, so that "guests do not stay too long". I don't find the humor in this, nor I'm sure do the families of the 33 boys found murdered underneath his floorboards.

    Call me humorless... but this extends beyond embracing bad taste. I find it disturbing.
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    09/25/09

    @SudeviUsopp: I honestly don't understand John Waters' motives on a logical level either. But I do admire him greatly, as an artist, which is why I pay attention to what he says and don't discard it off-hand as rubbish. I thought Waters' Leslie Van Houten book moved beyond his usual provocative MO--it's a sincere effort to understand and try to absolve a very, very terrible person who did a terrible, terrible thing, but has since atoned for it. I dunno, it's an interesting thing to contemplate. It brings up interesting questions about the nature of evil, and society's default rules to forgive vs. forget.
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    09/25/09

    @snugbug: I don't think it's rubbish, either, and I agree that the nature of mercy, the capacity for evil and for good, the concept of redemption, etc. are all very worthwhile things to think about and debate.

    What bugs me about the excerpts I read is that Waters can't seem to understand why people can't just see the BEAUTY of LVH and let go of that nasty little incident in the past . . . his capacity for compassion for the survivors seemed so much less than his capacity for compassion for the killer. That strikes me as very wrong.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    09/25/09

    In reply to Susan Atkins, Manson Girl
    I think of Sharon Tate all the time. I never think of those wretched women in prison who killed her. They can rot in hell, and Monday is Yom Kippur and I don't even care.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    09/25/09

    In reply to Susan Atkins, Manson Girl
    Good. Not soon enough, and I hope it was very painful. 'Nuff said.
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    Image of Eringowaaaah Eringowaaaah
    09/25/09

    In reply to Susan Atkins, Manson Girl
    Remorse is a powerful thing.

    When the guy who raped and sodomized me was being sentenced, the judge intimated that if he'd only shown some remorse, he would have gotten a lighter sentence. Idiot stilled cried consensual and ended up in the slammer for 12 years--for a first offense.

    Peeps, when it gets to the sentencing stage, always say you're sorry (unless you really didn't do it, of course).
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    snugbug promoted this comment Eringowaaaah was starred Eringowaaaah was unstarred
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    09/25/09

    @Eringowaaaah: Oh God. I am so sorry this happened to you. May I suggest a beautiful piece of literature that deals with this kind of ordeal? It's a chapter from David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"--the "B.I. #20 12-96, New Haven, CT" chapter in the book. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and just thought I'd share that here.
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    Image of HypocriticalOath HypocriticalOath
    09/25/09

    @Eringowaaaah: 12 years? He should have gotten 12 lifetimes.
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    Image of Eringowaaaah Eringowaaaah
    09/25/09

    @snugbug: Ordering right now. Thanks.
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    Image of Eringowaaaah Eringowaaaah
    09/25/09

    @HypocriticalOath: Thing is, I actually feel bad for him. Whatever he did to me in no way makes up for being Bubba's bitch for all this time. I'm sure he'll come out worse than he was when he went in. Especially if he's still lacking in that good old dose of remorse.

    He gets out next year so am actively seeking suggestions for places to live besides NYC. Amsterdam is a top contender.
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    Image of CarlinaZeikfried CarlinaZeikfried
    09/25/09

    In reply to Susan Atkins, Manson Girl
    I dont have anything constructive here. Nothing exceeds like excess I guess.
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    snugbug promoted this comment CarlinaZeikfried was starred CarlinaZeikfried was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/25/09

    @CarlinaZeikfried: Yeah, it's a bit of a letdown. I was hoping for some kind of back-and-forth about how and why a naive young girl from a middle-class, albeit dysfunctional, family, lost her mind under the influence of drugs and the ridiculous rantings of a misogynistic, illiterate pig. That's the part I never got--these young women testifying that they were so ensnared by Mason's spiel that they obeyed his orders like zombiebots. I also don't get Jim Jones, or the Nike sneaks cult, etc.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    09/25/09

    @snugbug: That's because you're probably (somewhat) sane and have a mind of your own.
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