Month: July 2011

Checking In on the News Corp. Scandal

I don’t plan on writing much about the News Corporation scandal unless and until it becomes more of an American story, but things are really heating up in the United Kingdom and investigations have begun here in the...

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Wanker of the Day: Maureen Dowd

If you are uncertain about something important, you should use Google or some other search engine to resolve the question. Someone needs to explain this to Maureen Dowd. Her column this week is about the mistrial in the...

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Finding the Sweet-Spot

If I were the editor of this Reid Wilson piece, I would have asked for at least one original quote on the record. Nevertheless, its reporting is decent and its analysis is correct. Privately, House Republicans have been driving...

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Peanuts Thread

So, I was wracking my brain trying to remember the name of the little red-haired girl when I realized that I could ask The Google. Of course, I didn’t have much of a chance of remembering it since it was only mentioned...

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