I know. I know. The news is bleak. War in the Middle East. Iraq is terrible. Global warming. Bush is vetoing stem-cell research. I finally found some humor. The current New Yorker had Ken Auletta's piece about Anthony Pellicano, or more specifically Bert Field and Michael Ovitz who are...

If Abe Rosenthal was executive editor of the New York Times today, he probably would not last very long. He was too big, too operatic, too brilliant, too impatient. Abe would loathe too many people: smug young self-entitled reporters, bloggers who hate the New York Times, Times' executive demanding budget...