OK, I'll simplify Tom's point: Dicks can be good at baseball. The end. Read more

This is a stupid person's idea of a clever thing to say. Read more

I dunno. I'm obviously biased here, but I strongly disagree with your reading. It was personal only insofar as Lena Dunham's personage presented Vogue with an awkward dilemma that, say, Gisele's never would. Here was a public figure whose celebrity was built in part on her frankness (writerly and bodily), on being… Read more

Look at the entry again, though. How could that be read as anything but a defense of Jezebel? Read more

I said this in the other thread, but we had a pretty specific category in mind: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140… Read more

Why "weirdly"? I swear, I'm not making up a category here: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140… Read more

Thanks for the idea. Read more

http://deadspin.com/no-paying-athl… Read more

Nah, this is definitely not a fake category. Go back and look at the early reaction to Jezebel's Lena Dunham pics, which was an orgy of "quien es mas feminist" posturing. (As I recall, Emily Nussbaum was the worst offender, and I say this as someone who likes her writing outside of Twitter.) The Twitter… Read more

Voting has begun: http://deadspin.com/vote-you-whine… Read more

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None that I know of. He's sitting 15 feet away from me right now, glowering at something or other. Read more

Grew up in Urbana, Ill.; graduated from Northwestern. Rooting interests: Illinois basketball, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Bears, Oakland A's (quit the Cubs after '03; was living in SF at the time and adopted the only tolerable team in the vicinity). Least favorites: Duke, St. Louis Cardinals—all the obvious ones, really,… Read more

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Your "openly" sort of answers your question, doesn't it? Everywhere I've worked in media, we've bitched about the bosses, about their fatheadedness, their casual cruelties, the needless complications they introduce into our workdays. Nowhere but Gawker have I felt at liberty to say any of this stuff to a boss's face. Read more

Outsourcing this one to Dan Steinberg:

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