So this is happening: “To accompany The Economist’s special report on the news industry, Jay Rosen and Nicholas Carr are debating whether the Internet is making journalism better.” Mmmmkay….

“News Corp. has 152 subsidiaries in tax havens, including 62 in the British Virgin Islands and 33 in the Caymans. Among the hundred largest U.S. companies, only Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have more tax haven subsidiaries than News Corp.”
 — Old Man…

Are you familiar with The Bad Deal? Its proprietor, Ryan Sutton, tracks the ever-expanding group coupon (or, in the parlance, a “GROUPON,” LOL) industry for things that are frankly fairly terrible. (For instance? $140 for 90 minutes of…

“Officials on Tuesday unveiled a massive statue believed to be that of Roman emperor Caligula sitting on a throne…. Caligula, who reigned from 37 to 41 A.D., has gone down in history as a crazed…