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    New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River

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    Image of eleusiswalks eleusiswalks
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    I hate Hemingway and I hate this.
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    Image of beppolina1 beppolina1
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    Barry uses a favorite NYT code word: tidy. (Rachel Shaw lives in a "tidy tent" with porcelain dolls.) Times shorthand for describing neighborhoods:
    TIDY: Well-behaved working folk, mostly of color
    VIBRANT: Hipsters! Galleries! Gentrification! But...kind of gay. (See a 3/24/05 article about Portland OR: "Vibrant Cities Find One Thing Missing: Children)
    GRITTY: Poor folk, mostly of color. (7/22/09: "Gritty Bushwick is Getting Some Wine Shops.")
    HUSHED: White folks with big front lawns.

    So Rachel, by this shorthand, is one of those decent poor folk. After all, she's got dolls.
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    You know, I had a choice between reading this article or Paul Krugman's on my phone this morning during my commute. I only get one option, because once the T goes underground, no signal (god, sometimes I miss DC). And it was tough, I mean, Dan Barry vs. Krugman droning on about health care reform in his 14th mix 'n match editorial, amirite? But I picked Krugman, and that made all the difference.

    Because seriously, if I had read this shit, I might have puked. And Boston's so bankrupt, I'd probably be going home on the same dirty train.

    Talk of rain tonight my ass. There's something called a weather forecast, dammit. Get a job and get some wireless!

    (that's sort of a joke.)
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    Weird.

    Barry is a multiple award-winning bad-ass, and in 1994 even bagged a Pultizer at his former paper, the Providence Journal-Bulletin "for a series of articles about the state’s court system; the series led to various reforms and the criminal indictment of the state’s Supreme Court chief justice."

    When did he become such a sloppy softie with a fetish for dorky similes?
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    So that's why no children are allowed.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    If only that tea kettle sang Ella, or Louis Jordan, or even Chris Brown, and got those homeless toes tapping a rhythm of hope. Ah well. You can't have everything.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    The gay couple, of course, live "near some rocks where men go to urinate." I guess we know why, right Dan? At night, they "sit at a riverside table . . . the moving waters suggesting mystery."
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    Image of Flashman Flashman
    07/31/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: Hey come on. Sometimes moving water just does suggest mystery.
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    Image of Veillantif Veillantif
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    All it needs is a line about Freitas being a manly man, and you would think it was by Charlie LeDuff. It's that bad.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    The child rapist is revealed. The NY Times bashers generate page views.
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    07/31/09

    @Nic Fit:

    It is actually kind of relevant that this very sentimental story didn't include the unsentimental fact that its leader did time for raping a a child.

    The criticism is entirely justified.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    "I expect there'll be quite a few awful writers trying to rip off the Grapes of Wrath until this recession passes. The March winds blew."
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    Bulwer-Lytton would be proud.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    This is SO the NY Times. Make the evidence fit the story you want to write. If you must ignore some of it, so be it.

    Edmund Andrews and his oops-she-filed-for-bankruptcy-twice spendthrift wife come to mind.
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    Image of pit_viper pit_viper
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    A singing tea kettle? Oh wait, I get it! This is the DISNEY homeless camp. I bet "Chief" has a chirpy song about hardship accompanied by an abandoned singing tire.

    The reporter did "Chief" an injustice, though. "Chief" works really hard at getting rid of the sound like fingers drumming in impatience. He wishes upon a star about that pretty constantly.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    07/31/09

    @pit_viper:
    "..Oh wait, I get it! This is the DISNEY homeless camp..."

    No, if this was the Disney homeless camp, there would be a dog, probably a terrier or otter hound mix, with a red bandana as a collar. Of course, they may have just lost that detail in the edit...
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    04/11/09

    In reply to New Depression Trendwatch: Suddenly It's Cool to Live Like a Homeless Person
    The sentence "She knows whereof she blogs." should never appear in the Old Gray Lady. It sounds like a Juno quote.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    04/11/09

    In reply to New Depression Trendwatch: Suddenly It's Cool to Live Like a Homeless Person
    Yay, Teh Poors win! Now, how much did we win?
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