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  • Why Lame Slate Writers are Jealous of Dan Brown!

    What do you get when you have a bunch of envious hacks scribbling for a B grade news website whose only consistency is its contrarianism for the sake of? Dan Brown Haters! It's fiction!!!!!!!! It's a thriller!!!! Why not hold the same contempt for a crappy Apatow movie? Because it's obviously escapism as is this book. ''Why Slate is ...
    Posted to Books by ContrarianAdNauseum on September 17, 2009

  • Why Does Slate Hate Dan Brown? Answer: Jealous

    What do you get when you have a bunch of envious hacks scribbling for a B grade news website that's only consistency is it's contrarianism for the sake of? Dan Brown Haters! It's fiction!!!!!!!! It's a thriller!!!! Why not hold the same contempt for a crappy Apatow movie? Because it's obviously escapism as is this book. ''Why Slate is ...
    Posted to Books by ContrarianAdNauseum on September 17, 2009

  • Yoffe lacks nuance

    I've often found Yoffe's self-satisfied takes on the typically uninteresting Prudie questions to be mildly offensive. This one strikes me as particularly cruel, willfully ignorant, and damagingly dismissive.Yoffe, I agree that you should have noted that the questioner's rapid weight gain is unhealthy, physically, emotionally, and, unfortunately, ...
    Posted to Slate V by monthofmae on September 2, 2008

  • Hillary "Tweets"

    Are they meant to be funny? I quickly tired of reading line after line of smug snarkiness on your ''Twitterbox.'' I expected a higher level of discourse from Slate. Reading the Hillary Twitterbox and taking a cursory look at the headlines of the Slate main page have given me cause to reassess my opinion of the quality of Slate's journalism.
    Posted to Twitterbox by Eusebius on August 26, 2008

  • Hillary "Tweets"

    Are they meant to be funny? I quickly tired of reading line after line of smug snarkiness on your ''Twitterbox.'' I expected a higher level of discourse from Slate. Reading the Hillary Twitterbox and a quick look at the headlines of the Slate main page have given me cause to reassess my opinion of the quality of Slate's journalism.
    Posted to Twitterbox by Eusebius on August 26, 2008