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    Image of Astroblack Astroblack
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    A career as a Life Coach for someone who is already known for being a sham? This doesn't sound unlikely, it sounds damn near perfect.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    Can we say Guest Gawker Intern?

    C'mon, you let the other literary fraud do it, give a brotha a shot .. :[]
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/20/09

    @lobstr: At least he isn't doing the annoying "Well maybe I was lying but you should have known I was lying" bullshit thing.
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    Image of GwynethPhineus GwynethPhineus
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    He might want to look up how to spell "Asperger's" before claiming he can treat it.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/20/09

    @GwynethPhineus: Oh, lord, now I have to go look. I was averting my eyes before.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    If you happen to need a "lie coach," JB is your man.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    Couldn't we call St. Augustine the first Blair-esque life coach? As I recall, Augustine's confessions are all basically "do as I say and not as I did," cus *that* guy was a *baller* before he found Christ.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/20/09

    @pmarble: Right on.
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    Image of SybilDisobedience SybilDisobedience
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    Penn and Teller's Bullshit! did an episode on life coaching, and needless to say it was both sad and hilarious. The best ones are the ones who claim that an angel who lives inside of them is the one who's REALLY giving you life advice. Because if it's divinely inspired, you're more likely to fork over the cash!
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    Image of oneninesevenfour oneninesevenfour
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    Ugh, his counseling center is Ashburn -- land of overpaid tech executives sucking at the government IT teat and football players all living in horrible plantation-colonial style McMansions.

    From his bio there:

    "Mr. Blair holds a B.S. from Jones International University, has studied ... at Capella University. He also studied journalism at the University of Maryland-College Park."

    Funny those are BS schools as well!
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    "life coaches" are usually the last people who should be coaching anyone on anything or IN anything.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    These days I'm working in direct marketing and I swear, 90% of these "gurus" all have a story about how "15 years ago I was bankrupt and living on food stamps and completely hopeless. If I can turn my life around and make millions, SO CAN YOU!"

    It's one of the oldest sales pitches around.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    See, the difference between a "life coach" and any other counselor is, if you're mucking up your life, he can send you to the showers and bring in Jon & Kate.
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    Image of BoonsFarmersDaughter BoonsFarmersDaughter
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    He can only HOPE to be as good as Danny Bonaduce - Life Coach.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    He lives in a van down by the river.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/20/09


    @econdave: Exactly what I thought of.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    He needs another dose of Vitamin STFU.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    "Life Coach" is pretty much a euphemism for "unemployed advice-giver with no credentials."
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair's Increasingly Unlikely Career Path
    I hate it when my life coach makes me run suicide sprints.
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