As I write this, we are 15 minutes away from seeing what bids have come in to buy Newsweek. So I did a bit of Googling to catch up on the press coverage to see how my old alma mater was fairing.

The Conventional Wisdom doesn't look good.

I'm a saddened by the for sale sign that's been put up at Newsweek. For what it's worth, I hope they find a buyer who can keep the magazine alive. There are bunch of good people working there, and as the magazine's recent cover on Afghanistan demonstrated, Newsweek...

The Hurt Locker looked poised to win big at the Oscars this weekend until getting embroiled in a controversy about whether or not it's realistic. Iraq and Afghanistan veteran advocate Paul Rieckhoff pointed out a couple of significant inaccuracies (bomb squad techs acting like infantrymen, bad tactics, wrong uniforms, etc.),...