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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: Madonna Malawai Banda Kaballah!
• the-cubicle-dweller - "That's not a Kaballah band, that's the string to the baggage ticket."

Re: Welcome to GawkSpinDerdome
• Suss— - "I have a feeling being executed as a commenter from Gawker is a lot like Jack in the Box refusing to serve me."

Re: Pointless News Network
• TedSez - "He should just take his souped-up DeLorean back 43 years and steal his own umbilical cord."

Re: No Day Like Today For Yet Another Gentrification Story
• ellagood - "ahhh ... my 'hood .... i still blow rails in tompkins square park - i just duck behind a bugaboo first."

Re: Why Wait For Midterm Elections When You Can Vote For A New Douchebag Today?
• lefty - "I've done some research and found this fascinating political fact: over the last ten midterm elections, whenever douchebag has fallen into disfavor, the incumbent party has retained control of the House and the Senate. Stay the course. Vote douchebag."