Scandal

Schrödinger’s Finke

• “Nikki Finke has been fired from the blog she founded, Deadline Hollywood, and will be leaving the company as soon as…

Here’s a lot more on the strange case of Jonah Lehrer, the new New Yorker writer and “idea man” who borrows early and often from his own work. We’ve been staying out of this one — for one thing, it just doesn’t need a mass outrage pile-on (it’s not like he was writing things in the public interest; if he was…

The Goldman Sachs Op-Ed

Everyone online is sort of sniffing at the already-infamous “Why I’m Leaving Goldman Sachs” op-ed in today’s Times…

Neal Stephenson E-Book Yanked from Amazon!

William Morrow/HarperCollins has pulled Neal Stephenson’s brand-new book, Reamde, off…

Have you read the story about the Amazon warehouse outside Allentown? You should! It’s not… good. In short, Amazon largely staffs that warehouse with temporary workers through an agency, dangling the prospect of being promoted to full-time…

The Great Netflix Freakout

Everyone is losing their minds over Netflix’s announcement that they’ll split into two companies: one that does…

The latest non-scandal that will not be catching on is “NYPD CAUGHT BOOTY-DANCING” — at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, over Labor Day Weekend. (Or as World Star Hip Hop put it, “Daggering on the Parkway,” LOL.) The best is…

“It is obviously impracticable to imprison them all.”
 — Darn. All you thousands of people who named alleged football romancer R___ G___ (Ryan Giggs!) aren’t going to be prosecuted. Also he has been named in Parliament. Also…