What’s wrong with the Wright trial

Lighten up tonight’s punditry with a game

Leave it to the New York Post to find some dark humor in the increasingly brutal Democratic nominating contest. Today, via The New York Times‘s Friday Happy Hour, I was introduced to the tabloid’s “2008 Democratic Fight Night” game, which brings visual verve to all those boxing analogies we were subjected to courtesy of the […]

Let’s press the candidates about early education

Humidity is rising… Barometer’s getting low According to our sources… Your TV’s the place to go Cause tonight, for the first time At just about half-past ten Right there on your TV set It’s gonna start raining men…! The London Daily Telegraph has just released its list of the fifty most influential pundits in the […]

The Indy paper makes its endorsement

The phrase “under the bus”—as in, to throw someone under the bus, or betray them—has long been a favorite on Top Chef and other reality-competition shows. (“Marcel totally threw me under the bus at Judges’ Table. He should be the one going home this week—did you taste his lobster foam?!”) But this week, thanks to […]