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    Dave Adam Weinstein
    6/23/15 11:44am

    Umm, and stuff like this never happens at Gawker Media? If you work in an office you are going to say and do some

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    stuff from time to time. Even if you are the stodgy old NYT. Plus, pre-social media, drunk and on the road don’t count.

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      elrodlouieDave
      6/23/15 11:48am

      maybe but don’t take a fukkin picture of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      Dave elrodlouie
      6/23/15 11:51am

      You’v never been to an office party where regrettable photos were taken?

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    Sean BrodyAdam Weinstein
    6/23/15 11:46am

    “This is what journalists did with their childish impulses before there was Gawker.”

    Damn, son.

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      dothedewSean Brody
      6/23/15 11:47am

      Did Keller just throw shade?

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      opiumsmabytchdothedew
      6/23/15 11:50am

      We’ll let Shade Court decide.... but in my humble sideline armchair backseat driver opinion:

      Yes.

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    The ever-present football-player rapistAdam Weinstein
    6/23/15 11:42am

    the 1997 self-murders of the Heaven’s Gate cult

    If only there were a word for that...

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      BurningSpearThe ever-present football-player rapist
      6/23/15 12:11pm

      Perhaps he ran the article through Google translate into German and then back? The German seblstmord is directly translated as selfmurder.

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      NewYorkCynicThe ever-present football-player rapist
      6/23/15 10:34pm

      COTD, for sure.

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    2DollarzAdam Weinstein
    6/23/15 11:48am

    I am deeply offended and morally outraged. I mean, seersucker day? What kind of depraved freak organizes that?

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      LRonsCupboardAdam Weinstein
      6/23/15 12:20pm

      “I used to organize a Seersucker Day at The Times to mark the first full day of summer”

      For fucks sake.

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        LongPigHelperLRonsCupboard
        6/23/15 1:27pm

        dafuq is “Seersucker Day”? Does that fall before or after “sock hose day” on the yearly calendar?

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        LRonsCupboardLongPigHelper
        6/23/15 3:24pm

        Silly. Every day is sock hose day!

        The kind of people who own enough seersucker to put together an annual outfit because they think it’s “witty” are the same people who think it’s the end of civilization to listen to Kim Kardashian answer three questions on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.”

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      econdaveAdam Weinstein
      6/23/15 11:52am

      Way to tag it with “Charleston Shooting”, with which this has no connection, just to pump up the outrage.

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        MissNormaDesmondecondave
        6/23/15 1:25pm

        Yeah, that’s pretty absurd. Unless they’ll be staging that tableau later this week.

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      Jennifer C. MartinAdam Weinstein
      6/23/15 11:44am

      Another dumb college frat with horribly offensive party themes, huh?

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        Syphilitic Scalia SaysAdam Weinstein
        6/23/15 11:50am

        So where is the picture of Judith Miller “recreating” the 9/11 murders?

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          IAmNotADamnWriterAdam Weinstein
          6/23/15 11:48am

          Well, it’s not surprising if you read “Here are the 10 careers with the most psychopaths” over on RawStory...

          6. Journalist. A musician friend once said to me that you have to be a complete narcissist, totally delusional, or both to get up on a stage and essentially expect a room (to say nothing of a stadium or an arena) full of people to listen to you. To consider your own emoting so worthy of being heard that you essentially, and completely willingly, make a spectacle of yourself. It’s an abstract way of looking at things but there’s a grain of truth to it. (The fact that you might be charming and engaging enough for that audience to want to watch you is itself another psychopathic trait.) Which is why this one isn’t exactly a spoiler, especially after number three. (And no, the irony is not lost on me as write these words.)

          Freelance writer Jeff Cash wrote that, “a hint of psychopathy is actually a prerequisite for public purpose journalism.” As Cash put it, “Psychopathy can creep in all too easily in the world of journalism, as any reporter who’s had an after-hours fight with some obnoxious public relations officer can attest to. (That’s pretty much all of them, by the way). Seeing your name in a national newspaper on a daily basis is enough to turn even the most humble being into a fountain of narcissism. And if you think that’s bad, just imagine how much appearing on national television would contribute to one’s superiority complex.” So yeah. Maybe there’s something to this.

          http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/here-a…

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            Misteaks were madeAdam Weinstein
            6/23/15 11:50am

            Now the mass shooting incidents I could see being pretty dam offensive. But poking fun at misguided idjits committing mass suicide following a huckster to a fantasy planet? That’s comedy gold.

            Also...self murder? Really? Suicide seems pretty fitting.

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