'Where's My Gun Atlantic Wire?'

It's true: Our little gimmicks to bring in readers pack far less bang than The Daily Caller's plan to give out a gun a week until election day.

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'There Is No Economy of Scale As a Single'

A couple of commenters touched on a good point tangential to Jen Doll's No Sympathy For the Singles, but we're only featuring the one that taught us a new word.

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'No One Owns an Idea'

In this time of big Facebook headlines, today's commenter borrowed wisdom from the movie The Social Network to address another set of fighting tech entrepreneurs.

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'Her Music Never Got Old and in My Mind Neither Did She'

The death of Donna Summer touched a lot of people, many of them our readers, and reminded us of a bygone era not just of musical genre but of technology.

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'Dispatch Photogs to the Astor Place Chase Bank!'

Sometimes the pictures just don't match the words, as with today's breathless reporting of a possible run on Greek banks accompanied by photos of ATM users calmly standing in line.

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'Maybe the French Secret Service Hired Maids at All Major Hotels'

Nothing has been cut and dry in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, especially Strauss-Kahn's claim his encounter with Nafissatou Diallo was entirely consensual and he was set up, and at this point our readers readily mock suggestions his version could be the truth.

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'See You in Tampa'

Covering Ron Paul just wouldn't be the same without the (sometimes vociferous) input from readers loyal to him.

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'I Hope My Parenting Is Never Judged...'

Sometimes it's the simple points that we need to be reminded of most, which commenters demonstrated in their responses to Jen Doll's post on that "attachment child" featured Friday morning on The Today Show.

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'A "Toddler" Indeed!'

Nothing gets commenters going like a TSA outrage story: Responses to Alex Abad-Santos' post about an 18-month-old who made the no-fly list ranged from snarky to serious, but the two that made us snort imagined the baby as an actual terrorist.

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'How Often Do We Get to Read Such a Back and Forth in One Newspaper?'

When The Atlantic Wire's John Hudson suggested that  New York Times columnists David Brooks and Paul Krugman should settle their apparently simmering dispute once and for all, one commenter disagreed.

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'Fix Unnecessary Ellipses First... Please'

After we unleashed our wrath about the world's unruly use of exclamation points in emails, we got to thinking: Which other punctuation marks could we do without?

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'Maybe The Idea Is to Rile Up the People Who Hate Obama Already'

A lot of people weighed in on John Hudson's post about the "swift-boating" of President Barack Obama, most either to remind us of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment, or to call Obama a socialist, but one take on the ad actually was pretty original.

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'North Korea Is the Blue Öyster Cult of Nations'

Now that it's been suggested, we can't think of a better rock-n-roll comparison for North Korea.

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Colton Dixon: 'A Cocktail of Formaldehyde Mixed with PedEgg Shavings'

Clearly, we've found someone who didn't vote for American Idol's Colton Dixon last night.

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'The List Is All About Buzz...'

We could argue all day about whether or not Time's annual 100 Most Influential List -- or any list for that matter -- really says anything relevant about what's happening now.

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'West Africa's Boundaries Are Especially Ridiculous'

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'Camille Paglia Better Watch Out, Katie Roiphe is Coming...'

The freakout over a Tina Brown Newsweek cover story is basically becoming a cliché at this point, but the addition of Slate's contrarian-at-large Katie Roiphe made this week's troll-bait all but irresistible.

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'I Understand Raising Kids is Hard Work...'

Ann Romney may not have a full-time job per se, but we can all give her credit for struggling to raise five boys, especially with of millions of dollars to pay for help.

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'This Election Season Just Got a Lot More Drab'

For some people, it wasn't easy to say goodbye to Rick Santorum on Tuesday, when the Republican hopeful announced he'd be dropping out of the presidential race.

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