Leave it to the mortgage market implosion to ruin It’s a Wonderful Life. I feel like part of me is dying as I write this, but the subprime debacle sure...
A funny year-end roundup of newspaper errors here, courtesy of Jim Romenesko. Personal favorites: The Guardian: Gore Vidal was once head-butted by Norman Mailer, not the other way round. Vidal...
Happy holidays, all. Alessandra Stanley’s got a funny one here on the postmodern Yule Log: It seems like cheating, or bad karma, but it’s possible to have a yule log...
No, it’s not George Bush: It’s Congress. From John Schwenkler’s new digs: The problems of the retailers and the toymakers are beside the point, Colangelo said. “Congress decided these toys...
John McWhorter: “Overall, expecting Obama to treat social conservatism as beyond the pale proposes that Obama dismiss a frame of reference typical, whether many of us like it or not,...