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[cleolinda]

So, ice skating. I came out of the final night with an immense respect for both Emily Hughes and Sasha Cohen for continuing to fight and sell even after falling down (Cohen, particularly, because she biffed her first two jumps but it didn't kill her spirit; Hughes, particularly, for having so much spark and showmanship and recovering so quickly at

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[elbales]

♥ ChaucerBlog ♥

[crumpeteer]

Was it just me or was Dick Button extra snark filled last night? He even got Scott Hamilton in on the action at points (granted, Miki Ando had it coming). He was just craaaaanky last night. I started laughing when he went off about the laces being untucked. Anyone playing the drinking game would have been hammered in 10 minutes.

[particle_person]

The Duane link is broken-- it appears to have two URLs mashed together.

[particle_person]

...and lest I lose my manners entirely, thank you!

[particle_person]

Thing is, the Daily Show is so politically important to people under, oh, 35 that it's astonishing he didn't know. Politicians can't afford to be ignorant of comedy shows. What kind of public relations advice is he getting?

[conejita_diabla]

Yeah, but I've always gotten the impression of extreme cluelessness from good ol' Rod, so I'm not surprised. I thought the most shocking thing was how well he handled himself on camera, relatively speaking. He came off much better than I expected...

[lots42]

The Daily Show and the Colbert Report always show a lot of interviewees becoming horribly offended or just clue-deprived whenever Colbert or Codry goes off on a stupid tangent.

Do these politicians just let ANYONE stumble in?

Do they not GOOGLE them?

What lack of clue are in these office?

[conejita_diabla]

If you like the NYC bloggers, have you seen Dog Shit Girl?

[cleolinda]

Heh, no. It is kind of unsettling, the article's right--

Online discussion groups crackled with chatter about every shred of the woman's life that could be found, and with debate over whether the Internet mob had gone too far.

I see this on Fandom Wank a lot, on various sides of a wank (and sometimes in the FW comments itself)--people become so incensed that they start looking up personal information and it becomes this Seek and Destroy mission way out of purportion to the original "crime," or even simple faux pas. It kind of reminds me of that adrenaline-rush madness that comes over you in the last five minutes of an eBay auction--you're willing to throw away hundreds of dollars BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO WIN!!

[conejita_diabla]

Unsettling, definitely - but there's also something cool about it, in a way. It's almost...grassroots. Someone did something really unpleasant, was unpleasant about it, and got insta-comuppance. The people that were suffering from her rudeness were able to do something about it, themselves. While most potentially scary privacy issues are top-down, big-brother-type stuff, this one is actually quite empowering for the average person, in a way.

[lots42]

My mom did that. Blatantly ignored my written-down limits, I paid five bucks more then I wanted to. Good G.I.Joe figure but for crying out loud