In the course of my daily surfing I usually hit a number of news sites and blogs and then follow the links that look interesting; this week a couple of those links led me to a couple of pieces of satire that I knew would elicit strong reactions. But that's to be expected when a former candidate for ...

There's a reason why CNBC viewers get shortchanged on their tech coverage: Jim Goldman, the network's Silicon Valley bureau chief, is not very tall. It's the kind of thing polite people don't talk about here. Luckily, we know some impolite ones. newVideoPlayer("/lyons_jobs.flv", 506, 423,""); Here's...

In theory, pro journalists can climb to the top of their fields without sacrificing their built-in urge to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In practice, even the loosest cannons find themselves battened to the hatch, or whatever the right sailing metaphor is. One of my role...

Dan Lyons is shocked, shocked that Yahoo's PR team lied to him about how long CEO Jerry Yang would stay in the job. PR people routinely lie; it's part of the job description. But the good ones don't get caught. Lyons, Newsweek's tech columnist, interviewed Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock less than a mont...

In this story about a man arrested while pleasuring himself in a park in Florida, the county sheriff said the suspect "had a lot of unusual things in his car that we thought were suspicious in nature." The WEHT-TV website report goes on to say that among the items found were "binoculars, sex toys, m...

The whole Xeni Jardin / Violet Blue thing continues to backfire on us. A female editor at Playboy.com alerted us to a "Who's the Web's hottest blogger"? contest they thought up after ogling last week's photos of the two cozied-up lady bloggers. The prize? Playboy will offer the winner a "topless or ...

After two years of playing footsie with Valleywag, I've finally been hired full time to write for what these kids call The Olds — that means winning over Fleetwood Mac fans and Fortune subscribers. Waist-high ace reporter Kara Swisher goaded me to start my first full day today with a journalistic ...

Interviews conducted at gas stations with locals whose contributions to the topic of rising energy prices consists entirely of said locals pissing, moaning, bitching, whining, grumbling, whingeing, griping and otherwise complaining about paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline does not in any significant...

The New York Times has learned a hard lesson: Say what you like about CBS Interactive head Quincy Smith — just don't criticize his duds. The bastion of class consciousness falsely claimed that he was wearing white shoes before Memorial Day — a big no-no among the ruling elite, where whit...

"An angel sculpture in Crawford, Texas is adorend [sic] with a wedding veil..." - Caption to a photograph accompanying a story in The Guardian about the wedding of Jenna Bush. "'The whole town's rapped [sic] up in this thing,' she said..." - The Guardian's transcription of a statement by a Crawford ...