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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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    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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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    10/27/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    Let me know when he puts his thoughts into about 300 pages. I trust him to make sure it all comes out of the mouth of a cynical selfish old jerk, so we can be left to draw our own conclusions and shit... you follow? #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    Roth gives jerking off a bad name, and that's pretty fucking hard to do. American Pastoral was tedious and phony. He also wrote a book in which a man turns into a breast. A book in which a man turns into a breast.

    A book in which a man turns into a breast. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    @lukeoneil47: C'mon, that scene in Portnoy's Complaint when the teenaged namesake protagonist rapes a piece of liver on his way to a bar mitzvah lesson? Solid gold. No one wrote more evocatively about jerking off than Roth.

    Evidence in quote:

    "Oh shove it in me, Big Boy," cried the cored apple that I banged silly on that picnic. "Big Boy, Big Boy, oh give me all you've got," begged the empty milk bottle that I kept hidden in our storage bin in the basement, to drive wild after school with my vaselined upright. "Come, Big Boy, come" screamed the maddened piece of liver that, in my own insanity, I bought one afternoon at the butcher shop and, believe it or not, violated behind a billboard on the way to a bar mitzvah lesson."
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    10/26/09

    @snugbug: Evocative of what?

    #philiproth
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    10/27/09

    @lukeoneil47: Evocative of the mixture of guilt and ecstasy that many people experience when they masturbate. I apologize for stating the obvious, but you asked for it. #philiproth
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    10/27/09

    @snugbug: People really felt guilty about masturbation? I thought that was just a set up for comedy bits.

    I suppose that's a thing of the past by now huh? Quaint almost.
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    10/27/09

    @lukeoneil47: You're neither Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are you? No wonder Philip Roth doesn't ring your bell. =) #philiproth
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    10/28/09

    @snugbug: On the contrary my good man and or woman, I was raised Irish Catholic in Massachusetts. I know a little something about repressing shit. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    I've read Portnoy's Complaint more times than I can count on the fingers of one hand, but slogging through The Plot Against America has been like rolling a boulder uphill. Positively a Sisyphus chore. I've started and abandoned it at least six times. Forget "two weeks"; at this point I aspire to finish it before I kick the bucket.

    PS: This might be my favorite "Quote of the Day" so far. I love talented smarties who say faux-dumb/provocative stuff just to get a rise out of people. I used to think Karl Lagerfeld was the undisputed champion of this game, but I'm tipping my hat to Mr. Roth as I type this.. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    What shameless elitism. He's setting up an arbitrary barrier-to-entry in front of people who want to access "literature." You could make up an infinite number of similar plausible-sounding but ultimately ridiculously pretentious rules about reading.

    EG: You aren't really reading a novel if:
    1. You don't listen to 15 minutes of Mozart beforehand.
    2. You don't stop every few minutes to look a window and contemplate.
    3. After reading you don't perform a meditative cranberry juice douche.

    etc... #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    I really admire Tina, but her squinting and trying to move her facial muscles in the DB video of her conversation with Roth is disconcerting. And are they drinking water? Beast Bar, my ass. It's a great idea, but next time I want to see some booze. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    @Baroness: I think she is a bit sweet on him. But truly Roth's novels for the most part are great and Roth is great and it was just fun to hear him talk and just be a great old writer...which is great. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    The Dorian Gray portrait I have in my attic went from Zac Efron to Nick Nolte in the time it took me to finish Infinite Jest. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    @Wendy_Kroy: I'm a little over halfway through IJ. It's open at arm's length on the side table right now, taunting me. I think calling it a "book" or "novel" is a vast understatement. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    That's just stupid. #philiproth
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Philip Roth — 
    If I keep going at the current rate I will have not read 26 Philip Roth novels this year, which means he'd better start cranking a few more out. #philiproth
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