If you want to know the facts about the Harvard plagiarism scandal, don’t go to the Times’ lame and protective coverage. The Harvard Crimson has thrashed the Times and all others on the Kaavya Viswanathan story. Today the Times failed…
My little brother says the Sopranos will end with Christopher, the lieutenant played by Michael Imperioli, knocking off Tony. One thing’s clear, Christopher is upstaging Tony. Last night Imperioli was the best thing on the Sopranos. His turn in Hollywood…
I don’t know what gets into me. I was at this party last night, all new people, and had a bunch of red wine. A roaring fire, and it’s near midnight. The hardcore of the party is still there. I…
I’m an idiot; I didn’t understand the Duke story till I saw Kim Roberts talking on CNN this morning. Finally, a cast of characters. Kim Roberts is “the second stripper” in the drama, the one who didn’t allegedly get raped….
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…
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.