Jones gives good blog?

I preferred LL's beef with Canibus.

 

I liked "bannermen".

"My name is Double, House of Down, the first of my name, ruler of the Wire threads, warden of the O'Brien discussions, Hand of the King and protector of the realm."

 

Does this mean DD will soon have his own meme, a la Stupid Ned Stark?

 

No, DD, don't walk into that vacant with Whitlock!

 

I get that. And again-- I would have had a ball taking him down with all the same jocularity of that blog post.

But I can't argue this one on the merits. Oh how I wish I could! Gawker's taken all of the fun out of it for me.

 

You keep saying this thing about the clicks. So I looked it up.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/03/i-cant-stop-reading-this-analysis-of-gawkers-editorial-strategy/

"While that writer struggles to find dancing cat videos and Burger King bathroom fights or any other post they feel will add those precious, precious new eyeballs, the rest of the staff will spend time on more substantive stories they may have neglected due to the rigors of scouring the internet each day to hit some imaginary quota."

I think you're missing the point of the clickbaiting, Big Ragu. It's to give the other writers time and space to work on the substantive stories. I have no idea if it's worked out that way. (I float over to the site maybe 2-3 times a week; it certainly does feel like they're running bigger, meatier stories, but that's just an impression.) I do know that Gawker is smart enough to realize that relying entirely on dumb clickbait and wild untruths will kill whatever editorial advantage they have over sites like Buzzfeed and Huffington Post. They're cynical as shit over there, but they're not stupid. If the site really were the wasteland you describe, Ragu, I'd never read it.

 

If the site really were the wasteland you describe, Ragu, I'd never read it.
Fallacy of authority, I guess. Maybe Zeke would know better what fallacy that precisely is.

Anyhoo, implying that Gawker has any edge over Huffpost is a giggle-inducer.

 

Circular logic, too.

 

Let me rephrase. I do not believe the site is the wasteland that Big Ragu describes.

Maybe I'm not up on my Huffpo, but last I looked, it was aggregation + celebrity op-eds, with a little Sam Stein thrown in. If there's ever been a decent turn of phrase committed to print over there, I haven't read it.

 

Without me even looking, which are the in-depth pieces of journalism on Gawker's front page right now?

The ones they were busy writing while this dillweed was writing about Jones' wife.

Perhaps they're in Mombassa, in a barrom drinking gin?

 

Gawker is full of SCOOPS!

 

@Bubbler, the album with 'I Need Love' also has a song called 'The Boomin System.' I think we'll play a little LL for Passover next weekend, thanks!

Back to the thread. May I just be blunt and suggest that when a woman is clamping her legs together, for any reason, it's a good sign you just shouldn't be there. I'm sorry, but I think that needed to be addressed.