I’ve been on record with my dislike for most of Annie Leibovitz’s work, but even I figured it was a good value in the photography market. Her auction record is something like $57,000; today, you can actually buy prints for like $8 grand. But what are you…

This is a very sad story about the top three wonks in New York City: Jefrey Pollock, Howard Wolfson and Josh Isay, all campaign ops super-spooks. Oh, they were friends, and then not friends, and then friends again, and sometimes their wives worked…

Not you too, Tishman Speyer! The WSJ says that the fabled and relatively squeaky-clean family real estate empire (Rockefeller Center! Chrysler building!) Tishman Speyer has defaulted on loans for a massive Washington…

This is actually a quite great account of the media and how it deals with Detroit. “The city’s second-most-overused blight shot is of the mile-long ruins of the Packard Auto Plant in East Detroit. ‘This is the visiting reporters’ favorite thing to see,’ [photographer]…

Der Spiegel rounds up and translates German newspaper editorials about the resistance to Obama’s health care proposal here in America. The general reaction seems to be SMH (shaking mein head). (Also? Oddly none of them refer to…

The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes, on the late Robert Novak: “It’s not too much to call Novak journalism’s last honest man in Washington.”

What Does Warren Buffett Want?

Who read Warren Buffett’s homework assignment to the U.S. today, in the Times? Because I am suspicious, I…

This is terrible. She’s been through so much. The drinking, the divorce, the paparazzi frenzy. Now, according to the BBC, she’s swamped with a three-foot-thick blanket of noxious algae.

So the woman with the Obama/Hitler poster at Barney Frank’s town hall meeting yesterday turns out to be a supporter of wacky political activist Lyndon LaRouche. Republicans, notes David Wiegel of the Washington Independent, have been quick to condemn the LaRouchites, fearing association…

This promo video for Jay Leno’s new 10 PM talk show is apparently running in movie theaters nationwide. Now, we’ve all heard the knocks on Jay Leno: His comedy is trite and sanitized for an audience of doltish viewers who lack refinement and are easily…