Emotionally unstable people, for reasons unknown to me, are frequent fabulists. I guess they need to compensate for the overly emotional life they suffer through. The lies help them cope. They become their reality and calm them. Zachary Roth is apparently one of those people. The New York Observer&#...

On Monday’s American Morning, CNN anchor John Roberts interviewed former Playboy CEO Christie Hefner, and introduced her as being “added to our roster of economic analysts.� Roberts also failed to mention Hefner’s long-time support for President Obama during the segment. The interview, which...

Your Wonkette despises leaving the house, ever, except for such things as food, but even that can frequently come in the form of home delivery these days, what with the Internet and all. But it is Holiday season, alas, and we feel obligated to cover DC’s many terrible holiday parties! Last nig...

You can file this story in a number of different categories: the inability of many New York politicians to grasp the nature of blogs, the cozy way in which political machines do business, the heavy-handed means by which these same machines preserve their power, and lastly, the perils of hosting a fo...

As the storm dies down here’s what we know: O2 are sold out of all iPhone 3Gs online. There are no white 16GB models to be offered from launch. The PAYG version won’t be launching any time soon - possibly not until Christmas. Carphone Warehouse are selling new connections on-line, but up...

Just prior to the virtual on-line session, the 4(!) bloggers at the event got to spend a few minutes with the product managers. Here’s what was discussed: Q: Why FP1 not FP2? A: Nokia needed a stable and reliable platform to build the unique (security and messaging) E-series features on. At th...

A Newsweek reporter called yesterday. She wanted to know about prayers that I've offered for Senator Obama. What I told her was that prayers should never be partisan. That when I pray for Senator Obama I don't ever lay claim that God wants one candidate or another to serve in office and that I often...

I’m into my second week looking at Nokia’s Ovi suite of services. So far N-Gage has impressed, Share on Ovi holds it’s own against Flickr and the music store worked, but was a nasty click-fest experience. That left Nokia Maps to look at… London is covered in Nokia Maps advert...

I’m continuing to look at Nokia’s Ovi services this week. Having taken a first look at photo sharing and gaming, it’s the music store this week which continues the trend of being a ‘mixed bag’. —- So, it’s the end of my first week with an N81 8GB testing the...

The Politico's Democratic blogger Ben Smith is now simply "The Politico," if this front page is any indication. Jesus, I know I've linked to him twice already today. And just who the hell does this "Carrie Budoff Brown" think she is, keeping a whole byline for herself? [Politico]...