While trudging through last night's moribund and unfunny home foreclosure-themed Simpsons episode, we suddenly got to wondering... Is it possible to laugh about the looming New Depression? OK, so there was a funny Peppermint Patty is a lesbian laff. But other than that, we sat through 22 minutes of ...

  There is certainly no shortage of reasons to bash the New York Times, but we've personally always felt a little protective of what is arguably one of the last vestiges of real print media. And then we read this Sunday Styles piece on the financial difficulties of surviving on $500,000 a y...