Too many SUVs at Duke lacrosse player’s boyhood home.
One shocking thing about the MySpace.com investigation—the Kansas students allegedly plotting a massacre at their high school on the site—is the claim by MySpace that it has 72 million members. A lot of people are living online. As a blogger,…
Julio Franco’s oldest-man-ever home run last night for the Mets has set off fresh controversy about his age. The Times stands by the official version, 47, today. But commentators on ESPN, notably Tony Rome, have been insisting that Franco is…
CNN said yesterday that when President Hu got heckled on the White House lawn, the Chinese censored its international edition so no one in China saw the incident. And of course Islam is in the stone age because they don’t…
On Imus in the Morning today, Howard Fineman went after Imus for failing to promote hs friend Jonathan Alter’s book about the first 100 days of the Roosevelt presidency. Then as Imus came back at him, Fineman admitted that he…
There are way too many white people commenting about black athletes on ESPN during the day. Yeah, I know: I’m the only person who notices anybody’s race.
A couple more thoughts on blogging from this newbie. On the one hand, it’s completely insane. The internet is a free printing press, and so you have a zillion people setting up their printing presses in the street and covering…
Last night, Chris Matthews greeted the new White House spokesman, Dan Bartlett, with a barrage of angry questions. Why did the Administration say that oil revenues would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq? Why did the Administration say that the…
The newly-discovered Gospel of Judas is exciting for all kinds of reasons. First off, it shows how flimsy doctrine is. If Judas is a good guy, then all the teaching is out the window, and the official interpreters have to…