Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The New York Times David Paterson Story Is Out, and It's Boring and more...

Wed Feb 17 2010
scandals
The New York Times David Paterson Story Is Out, and It's Boring

So, this is it? This is THE New York Times David Paterson 'bombshell'? The whole thing? There's not a second part that's actually good? Jesus, New York Times, why didn't you just say it was going to be so boring. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 22:15



science
Typos Don't Make Climate Change a Myth

"I'm a natural sceptic," a British-born web publisher says to explain his recent Tweets expressing doubt about the validity of the science behind climate change. Coincidentally, that's the same argument used by everyone who prefers conspiracy theories to science. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 16:05



feuds
Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad?

There's a heated turf war going on inside the New York Times over the iPad, pitting print die-hards against people focused on the Times' digital future. The outcome will determine pricing for some marquee content on Apple's tablet. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 14:00



recaps
RuPaul's Drag Race: Tastes Like Chicken

Child, I don't even know what to tell you about last night's episode of the wig-wonkiest show on television. Things happened! Things didn't happen. A big girl did splits and a Raven turned into a chicken. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 13:58



Field Guides
A Handy Guide to All Gay Men

The gay world is often represented as some sort of monolithic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down into a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 13:24



portrait of a killer
Killer Prof Just Didn't Want to Drive a Van for a Living, Chatty Husband Says

Amy Bishop, the biology professor who shot six of her colleagues, killing three of them, is a paranoid, angry woman who hates kids and was obsessed with a researcher who ended up in a dead-end job. (She also played D&D.) MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 12:20



recaps
Kell on Earth: The Check Is in the Fail

We were too busy dreaming about Bode Miller's backside to bother watching Kell on Earth last night. Thankfully fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was working there this fall during the filming. We have a feeling she has some stories to share. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 12:11



romance
JFK's Cheating Love Letters: The Modern Translation

John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline in 1953, but he was also creeping with many international beauties—including Sweden's Gunilla von Post, who's now auctioning off her love letters from the horndog president-to-be. He's lucky there was no internet back then. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 11:54



the olds
A Call for a Moratorium on Cranky Old Writers Complaining about the Internet

Writing on the internet is not committed to paper nor subjected to the same bureaucratic intercession of minders charged with protecting institutional reputations. For loathsome New Republic Leon Wieseltier, this makes the web suspect and newfangled and just annoying. MORE >>

POSTED: Tue Feb 16 2010 10:41




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