By • Mar 01,2010

The real medal counts

As I’ve written before, the way that the media counts medals is ridiculous. Gold>silver>bronze, but you’d never know that since they just add up the total number of medals and...

By • Feb 26,2010

"The Ghost Writer" review

The latest film from Roman Polanaski has been hailed as a return to form for the director behind Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Pianist — a taut political thriller that...

By • Feb 26,2010

Shocker: Matt Taibbi's a dick

Via Jason Fagone, I came across this story about the rise and fall of a duo of American muckrakers — Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi — looking to make a...

By • Feb 25,2010

Olympic Pole Dancing

There I was, struggling to come up with something to blog about — seriously: I don’t care about health care reform or this damn summit — when BAM: Deadspin blogs...

By • Feb 24,2010

Was Joseph Stack a terrorist?

It seems that Matt Steinglass is on pretty much the same wavelength I am regarding the IRS plane bomber, Joseph Stack: So I think that on definitional grounds, you have...