Retired corporate executive "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, dubbed a "psychopath" for his relentless commitment to slashing jobs at the companies he ran, was escorted out of an Ocala, Florida City Council meeting this week for shouting.
Conservative Scholars' Investigation Says Bowdoin College Is Awesome
Here's your latest in identity politics and victimology: One day not quite three years ago, Thomas Klingenstein, a rich white man, found himself playing golf with Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College. They were reportedly discussing the state of higher education and Klingenstein, by his own account, told…
Bill Keller Eagerly Reminds You That He Still Hates Julian Assange
Former New York Times editor Bill Keller has spent the past year pursuing a weird personal crusade against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He continues, weirdly, and to the detriment of his own reputation. Likewise, we shall continue our crusade against Bill Keller, until all of the world's readers have abandoned…
Bill Keller, Put Out to Pasture, Tilts Endlessly at Windmills
Cranky Old Man Who Really Has No Original or Insightful Ideas About The Internet or Media in General But Thinks He Does Because He Lived in a High-Powered Bubble For Many Years as NYT Editor and Now Nobody Will Tell Him That His Columns Are All Tedious and Pedestrian Bill Keller has written a snide response to all the…
Andy Rooney Is Finally Done Talking
Momentously eyebrowed useless old crank Andy Rooney has finally said enough. Just a day after CBS announced that the befuddled nonagenarian would return to his slot on 60 Minutes next week, they're announcing that next week will be Rooney's last appearance on the show. He's been there since 1978. About fucking time.
Bill Keller to Staff: I Hate Your Books
Bill Keller, the T. Herman Zweibel of New York Times columnists, is back with another edition of "Former NYT Editor Bill Keller Reveals Himself to Be Little Better Than The Average Topeka Capital-Journal Weekly Lifestyle Columnist, in a Spectacle That's Embarrassing for Everyone Involved." Today: Bill Keller uses his…
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.
Hooray, The New Republic Has Decided Someone Is an Antisemite
Uh oh! Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan posted a quote about The New Republic on his blog, without context. Time for a 4,300-word essay on how he hates the Jews!
BlahBlah NYT Disgraceful BlahBlah
Russ Smith, formerly the professional anti-New York Times crank at the NY Press, is now writing his same exact anti-NYT screeds, broken record-style, at SpliceToday.com. Good to know he's still cranking them out, just as trees fall in unoccupied forests. [Splice via Romenesko]
Ben Stein, Asking Questions Liberals Don't Want Asked, Will Not Take Your Questions
A while back, we learned of popular right wing hack and '80s relic Ben Stein's upcoming documentary, Expelled. It's about how all the secular Darwinist scientists persecute those people brave enough to speak made-up truths to power. Stein, whose training and expertise in the sciences is limited to a career of…
Alphabet City Unsafe For "Rich Girls And Bankers"!
From the mailbag: "some girl just had her purse stolen outside my window on 11th and A at 12:30am. there are so many loud teens in this neighborhood and drunk people at this time of night when she was screaming 'give it back fucker!' i didn't think anything of it until i looked out the window and realized what had…
Spaced out: "MySpace stole my magazine idea!"
We feel for Lamarr Watts. MySpace went and stole his idea for a magazine — get this — based on MySpace. The would-be entrepreneur tells us:
