Genghis, your link goes to your other post "Better Reader Posts" and not to the story.

Great news, though!

3) Better recommendations. This is perhaps the most important change we can make. People are going to post crap. We can't stop them. But we don't have to recommend them. And all the technology in the world won't help the recommended list if we continue to recommend poor quality posts. If you see a post that has little journalistic merit, don't recommend it. If you see a post that you strongly agree with or which is written by someone you like, you should be more, not less, critical. Remember that your natural bias in such cases will be to recommend, so ask yourself whether it really deserves your recommendation on its merits. Do not think of yourself as waging a battle to put more pro-Obama posts on the list or to make sure that everyone hears the latest news about so-and-so.

By all means, if you haven't already done so, click on Genghis's link and recommend that post.

But if this post makes the "Most Recommended" list, then Genghis wins "Hypocrite of the Day."

Or maybe "Hypocrite I'd most like to have a beer with."

Wait - so you create this bullshit story just to drive readers to another of your posts - chiding diarists for not behaving correctly?

Here's one tip you missed: Do not waste my fucking time.

Yoda says: You're going to have TPMers with pitchforks showing up outside of the Genghis house.

I didn't think you'd freakin do it!

What am I talking about? Of course you'd do it.

Need more rickroll.

A VERY important piece that will affect super-delegates here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/02/black-issues-group-price_n_99759.html

Okay, people, the choice is yours. Recommend this post, or recommend desidero's post from last night about healthcare: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/universal-health-care-is-good.php

(Or recommend anything else you prefer.)

But... I want to recommend it! I won't though. Must be strong...

The problem with this post is the lack of analysis. I read the entire post, start to finish, and don't know a damn thing more about P.J. Urbinato than I already knew before. Sooooo not recommending.

And why haven't Greg and Eric posted on this?!?!?!?

lol....so funny!

lol....so funny!

Sorry...computer froze!....But still funny!

The question I now leave you with is: who recommended? Those who were excited about the endorsement of Rep. PJ Urbinato (aka Yoda)? Those who thought that this post was funny? Those who thought that they were in on the joke? Those who wanted to encourage people to read the linked post? Ponder amongst yourselves.

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By way of comedy to redeem this thread I hereby leave you with the varied reactions to my shirt. I apologize for the vanity of the compilation, but I think that you will be entertained. If anyone wants to see the true color of my shirt, please join me to watch the IN/NC results come in on May 6th at Revival, 129 E. 15th St., New York, NY.

RSVP here: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4kf8

COMPLIMENTARY

Don't listen to 'em, G. That shirt is boss.
Posted by DF

Heyyyyy... Genghis - how'd you get your shirt to be all blinky?
It's sort of festive - I like it!
Posted by RhymesWithUrple

I've been meaning to say I love your shirts.
Posted by readytoblowagasket

CRITICAL

don't change the pic dude
change the shirt
Posted by Cypher

nice job looking even douchier in your new profile pic! love the collar.
Posted by okee

I've never seen a dumber shirt in my life.
Posted by BionicSoy

I, for one, am not excited by the shirt.
Posted by TTGZ

HELPFUL

It's a good effort, Genghis, but if you're going for the full-on '70s look, Genghis, you'll need to abandon modesty, lose the white T-shirt, and show some chest hair. Preferably with a large gold medallion.
Posted by scofflaw

Suggestion for your next avatar: keep the collar and add a kilt.
Posted by Yoda Urbinato

SNARKY

Please buy Dr. Genghis a beer or two, get him a little tipsy, and try to get that shirt from him.
Posted by Yoda Urbinato

And who bought that green collar for you, Einstein?
Posted by BionicSoy

I saw that shirt (and that pose) on a dating site. Are you trying to pick up some TPM love, genghis?
Posted by burnedoutdem

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid shirt? ;-)
Posted by GMan

He should consider hoop earrings. Then he'd pass for a failed pirate.
Posted by Cricket4

Your shirt must be radiating some nasty waves there.
Posted by codegen86

Don't feel badly that commenters are trashing your style. It's rather dashing in a Ricky Ricardo way.
Posted by lally

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER CALLED
They want their shirt back.
Posted by RenStimpy

NAUSEOUS

I would love it if people would refrain from using animated avatars. It's nauseating. Truly. I have to avoid that stuff or I'll heave.
Posted by TerryCarroll

ACCUSATORY

I refer you to:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/the-troll-whisperer.php
where I stated, in reference to my short Kool-Aid Man avatar:
I toyed with the idea of changing his color according to my mood (especially when your pic put me in a 70's frame of mind).
The next thing I know, you've got your psychedelic shirt on.
Posted by clearthinker

ARGUMENTATIVE

Our next running (REAL) debate will be over the salmon colored shirt Genghis is sporting in his new avatar.
Posted by Yoda Urbinato

Genghis is wearing what can only be called a decidedly peach color.
Posted by LisB

It is clearly vermillion. Perhaps with a dash of crimson. It is no more salmon than Charlie Tuna.
Posted by anneeliz

TEH shirt is coral and the collar is positively ......flamboyant.
Posted by lally

I still say salmon.
Posted by Tom Wright

Someone with protanopia would see that color as dirty olive green.
Posted by Evainne

Apparently the trolls say it's douche colored.
Posted by Yoda Urbinato

I said it was a peach color, first. You said not. I then tried to appease you by calling it terra cotta, next. You said not.
I even threw out a brick, goddammit.
NOW you're calling it close to coral (which is one shade darker than peach) but more vermillion.
(throws hands up in disgust)
Posted by LisB

Elitist colors all.
Posted by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

OBSESSED

It changes colors! How can you not talk about it!
Posted by am

(in th event of my deather I leave all my brightly colored shirts to Genghis.)
Posted by Yoda Urbinato

I think that's really a gift to the entire TPM readership. Genghis has generated more entertainment with one brightly colored shirt than the rest of us have with our whole wardrobe.
Posted by CaliforniaPaige

WEIRD

I'm just going to nibble on your shirt a bit...
Posted by goatlife

NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT

What, a guy can't compliment another guy's shirt? Are we not post-homophobia enough for that yet? I mean, I could see that it might be questionable if I had said something about your shoes...
Posted by DF

Now you fucking tell me.

After I posted a poem.

That super-delegates are going AGAINST the popular trend is enhancing the grassroots quality of the Clinton campaign. How ironic!

This only lends fuel to the idea that Obama is a front man, a construct for the powers that be.

Women -- particularly black women -- are shifting because they realize that they are the majority. The African American percentage of the vote particularly in North Carolina is going to be SUBSTANTIALLY altered by the defection of black women from the Obama camp.