Dear Miles, This is coming a day late, I’m sorry to say.  Today is your dad’s birthday, and we did our family celebration yesterday, which took up all my free time.  Everything’s a little more complicated with you involved; I can’t just run out and shop for a present or gro...

Condé Nast advertising is down a terrifying 30 percent this year, leading to speculation a bunch more people will be fired. Condé's CEO reassured everyone that, yes, they could be fired. Thanks? CEO Chuck Townsend's memo, via Peter Kafka at All Things Digital , is like one of the vague, color-code...

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2006. (Photo: Ron Edmonds / AP) read more...

There was a time in this country when a snow storm didn’t throw airline travel into a tailspin for 2 - 3 days.  The Atlanta airport was just crazy.  More on this later. Rick Santelli’s rant that got so much publicity may have been planned.  Right wing billionaires were probably behind...

Oh, Twitter! Even senators say the darnedest things on the dynamic compendium of Internet users' stupidest thoughts. "How does one manage a beaver?" asked John McCain mid-pork tirade. More tweets that left us speechless: Senator John McCain, in the course of criticizing wasteful spending, admitted h...

We know that a few of you might consider this “inside baseball,” so if that’s the case, then don’t read any more of this post and go do something else. Easy! Now: The New Republic heard the kids’ clamoring and has decided to release the full, insane Politico memo quoted...

Mark Suster, Partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, supplied us with a wealth of opinions one night when we asked him to guest blog for us. Mark sent us a Paul Graham-esque essay about his views on startup team-building, valuation, picthing a VC, partnerships, and more. Read his post, "Raising Mone...

Last year Pepsi spent several hundred million dollars on a new logo. Everyone figured they had just ripped off the Obama logo. But now an internal document from the branding company has surfaced: Breathtaking bullshit. See, there's no way the branding agency could charge millions if they just went i...

Today is a major layoff day at publishing house HarperCollins. Below, two internal memos [Updated: three], and the rumors we've heard so far: We hear there are many layoffs in the PR department, and that high level editors are being axed. Some of that is detailed in the memos. What the memos have sa...

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." Shunryu Suzuki "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." Sir Ken Robinson Today's image: Mujer envuelta e...