“Angels and Demons” is a movie about a hot Israeli actress named Ayelet Zurer and her Bottega Veneta…
Do not eat: SnackMaster All Natural Gourmet Ahi Tuna Jerky. Because: Pescatarians are to bulimics what vegans are to anorexics.* Go hard or go home. Extreeeeeme! Do eat: Wawa brand mesquite smoked Beef Jerky original…
Michael Lewis lets loose a massive review of The Snowball, Alice Schroeder’s recent biography of Warren Buffett. Reuters’ Felix Salmon calls the piece a take down; I think it’s a little more nuanced than that, but just a little. Either…
Maureen Dowd picks up a funny little correction today, as her weekend column lifted a paragraph from a blog. And we do mean “little”!
Maureen Dowd’s column on Sunday, about torture, failed to attribute a paragraph about the timeline for prisoner abuse to…
At a recent Harvard career day, the recruiters from newspaper companies told students to consider another industry and then threw students’ application materials in the trash. Meanwhile, the CIA held five recruiting events at Harvard in 2008.
The Supreme Court ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller cannot be sued by a Pakistani man who was detained in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks because they did not actually kick him in the stomach or drag him across…
Did you see Saturday Night Live this weekend? It’s all over the Internet if you haven’t and, you know what, there’s probably a good reason for that: It was pretty solid. Against the odds, and given that it is what it is, i.e. a tired format whose impact…
In 2008, Wired editor Chris Anderson brought in circa $2 million in speech fees. His forthcoming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” says the promotional materials, “makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.”
Eliot Spitzer is back on Slate, with a very exciting diatribe about how General Electric made significant gains from the New York Fed’s liquidity incentives to the commercial paper market last year, even though the chairman of GE is the only real “people’s…
On my way to Saturday’s Red Bulls soccer match at Giants Stadium (none of that was a typo), I was in line at Krispy Kreme for a little saturated fat. A bellowing ruckus erupted from whatever Paddy O’Hellhole McPub was there in the station. I…
President Obama: “jive talkin’.” Speaker Pelosi: “Homegirl’s in trouble.” Who is Steven Baldwin taking language lessons from, Michael Steele?
We don’t always cover every story that happens during each day’s news cycle, so here’s a capsule summary of recent events: President Barack Obama delivered a commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday in which he appealed to those on both sides…
Oooh! “Peter Berg is in talks to direct a big screen adaptation of Hasbro’s board game Battleship for Universal Pictures.” It may also star Robert Pattinson! (Because everything may also star Robert Pattinson! He’s hot right now…
The head of the Illinois State Board of Investments predicts that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s wide-ranging investigation of influence-peddling in the pension fund industry will result in the end of the “placement agent”business.-meaning that…
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake hit Southern California yesterday, causing concerned citizens to turn to the most trusted name in news for information: Twitter.
As of approximately 10:00 AM Monday, a search for #earthquake shows…
Christopher Hitchens continues to find women unfunny.
This is heavy going for a Monday morning, but GQ’s got a mammoth takedown of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems to have…
