“Every Sunday in Washington, D.C., a group of gay men in their thirties meet to play the wildly popular fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.”

Wired editor Chris Anderson raised issue with and made some explanations regarding yesterday’s Malcolm Gladwell review of his book, Free, which has chunks of other people’s work in it. Unfortunately, he ends his concluding paragraph with a question. To which he…

Will Leitch Hates You, Reader

Uh oh! Another author goes postal in the quick-publish Internet age! It is famed sports-blog shouter Will…

Really? Is “Ferris Bueller to Have No More Days Off, Ever” that much of a better headline (to accompany a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick and their new twins on Gawker) than the originally-published headline, “Rare Twin Foals…

Actually, yes! To use his phrase, Wired editor and ideas-author Chris Anderson is actually a proponent of “digital sharecropping.” Especially since he can’t find a way to put the “genie” back “in” the “bottle.” (Also which fallacy is it where you describe something…

“The man was probably a serial pedophile, may have well died of a drug overdose… [he] has multiple sealed settlements with the families of young boys. What exactly is it that we’re exalting?” said Councilman Lew Fidler.

Oh my God, I’m going to have a stroke: “many employers are bypassing the jobless to target those still working, reasoning that these survivors are the top performers.”

There is a huge dance party going on in Iraq right now, because the American troops are pulling out of Baghdad and the big cities, which is apparently the preferred method. And it sounds kind of hot: “Baghdad’s river-front parklands, which have been…

To quote the inimitable and dulcet Nikki Finke: TOLDJA! The battle between New York City and birds is not going well. Duh. Even while we gas them on the fronts of LaGuardia, they are attacking at JFK. Why is our Boston-bred government denying that we are losing the war on bird terror?

Also Vibe just died. Here we have another example of how furloughing workers and making less of a publication is usually not an effective technique to save a magazine or newspaper.

“Personal income-tax collections, which account for about 36% of state revenues, dropped 26% in this year’s January-April period.” Hence in part why some of the ten states that must finish their budgets tonight may not. Ha, well, I didn’t pay mine!