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Valentine’s Day at Gawker: Here are People You Should Hate

Haters gonna hate.

by
Dave Swindle

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February 14, 2012 - 11:50 am

Oh this is indeed perfect for Valentine’s Day at Gawker: Danny Gold pours in the vinegar with “Seven Careers Full of People You Should Hate.”

I enjoyed the last item on the list for obvious reasons:

1. Bloggers: How is there an entire burgeoning billion dollar industry of twenty-somethings who write crap on the Internet? I don’t understand it. A bunch of kids with no life experience write their views on the news of the day and world affairs and entertainment like it matters and you people eat it up? I have lifelong friends I have to ply with booze to get them to listen to me talk about anything for more than five minutes, and here you guys are, willfully clicking away. I can’t even look in the mirror. I was going to be a foreign correspondent! I’m getting a drink.

We 20-something, no life experience bloggers have prepackaged responses for these sentiments:

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5 Comments, 4 Threads

  1. 1. TheDougem

    Heaven forbid those..-common- people read what one another thinks! They might start getting funny ideas!

    Man, someone’s going to have to start keeping a list of all the insults thrown our way.

    February 14, 2012 - 5:40 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. HeatherRadish

    I’m pretty sure most of the bloggers I read regularly are over 30, and about half over 50. Some of the quilt bloggers are in their seventies. Lots of life experience all around. The hater on Gawker needs to expand his horizons. But then, well-rounded people don’t write for Gawker (why were you reading it in the first place?)

    February 15, 2012 - 10:17 am   Link to this Comment
    • Dave Swindle

      “(why were you reading it in the first place?)”

      For the same reason why I watch MSNBC, keep an eye on Media Matters, and read books on Marxism. It’s the job.

      February 15, 2012 - 10:59 am   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Rich Rostrom

    Well, the bloggers I read regularly include

    * law professors Glenn Reynolds, Ann Althouse, and the Volokh Conspiracy
    * Miss S. Weasel (definitely a lady of mature years)
    * Sergeant Mom (career USAF retired)
    * free-software guru Eric S. Raymond (who was in at the founding of the Internet)
    * pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe (23 years in the labs)
    * British political scandalmonger Guido Fawkes
    * Ace of Spades
    * Second City Cop (at least 10 years “on the job”)
    * Azrael the Gaijin (who might be under thirty – but is so insanely funny it doesn’t matter)
    * Science-fiction great Fred Pohl (first published in 1939 or so)

    There are many others I might visit occasionally, but damn few are children “with no life experience”. Would he include Michael Yon in that category?

    February 15, 2012 - 7:16 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Jonathan Sanders

    Seems like a case of the Gawker calling the kettle black ;)

    February 15, 2012 - 10:24 pm   Link to this Comment