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Each week, a reader comment per day is selected for inclusion and veneration in the Gold Star Motel. Standards of excellence are arbitrary, fluid, and contradictory. The reward is strictly honorary (at best). This week:

Re: 'Slate' Now Buffering Boredom
• KarenUhOh - "Exegesis Christ."

Re: Tom Sykes Really No Worse Than the Average New Yorker
• wombatty - "Yes, until you've forced your hand halfway up yourself for 5 minutes — mistaking every little ridge and crevice in your vagina for the vaguely rough edge of a cotton string — you haven't really hit bottom. In more ways than one."

Re: No Skinny Bones Here
• vwJou - "Nothing says 'fuck it, let's party' quite like a giant wrapped in taffeta."

Re: Alex Kuczynski: Black Like Me
• spinachdip - "This is like that time Princess Di shook hands with an AIDS patient to show people you can't get the virus by touching someone. So moving."

Re: Bruce Weber Makes Scary Austrian Designer Look Kind of Hot
• The Assimilated Negro - "it is a black cock after all, key ingredient to any truly 'fantastic man.'"