Each week, a handful of reader comments are 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: Michael Lewis Worshiping at Celebrity Baby-Naming Altar
• JupiterPluvius:"Jesus GOD, nobody cares about you and your stupid kids.
If 2007 is going to be the Year of the Introspective Media Dad, I am just going to have to pray for nuclear Armageddon, I guess.
At least neither Ahmadinejad nor Kim Jong Il bore me stiff with their self-absorbed updates on "Wow, it's so weird to be a father now, after my years of being so super-hip! Isn't it hilarious that I, a Gauleiter of Cool, am now watching Dora the Explorer?"


Re: John Hodgman Just Waiting For His 'Allure' Covershoot Now
• TedSez:"I bet he can go out without his glasses and no one will recognize him. Like Superman."

Re: Great Moments in Journalism: Come Again Some Other Day
• Steverino:"I'll have what Mother Nature's having."

Re: PrimeTimeTableGate: The Plot Thickens
• RomanHans: "rat says: 'Free market in action, baby.' So is cutting the kidneys out of people you meet in bars and selling them to transplant doctors. You're an idiot."

Re: Gossip Roundup: Raping Dakota Fanning Over The Coals
• Phyllis Nefler: "towards becoming, tedsez. towards becoming."

Re: What Is Up With: White Converse?
ConnPossible:"I have the white converse. And no pubic hair.
Fuck you Gawker."

Earlier: Guess Who's Coming To Denver?