JIM McMAHON Sports Illustrated cover HE can’t remember his Super Bowl victory, not me. I mean come on, I’m gonna forget Refrigerator Perry?! Once upon a time, mainstream media reached everybody, not only the seven o’clock news, but “Time,” “Newsweek” and “Sports Illustrated.” Now SI puts Jim McMahon on its cover, with a lengthy article […]

Who you marry is the most important decision you’ll make in life. I’d be lying if I said I was a David Brooks fan. It’s not because he signed off from my newsletter, it’s because he’s a conservative. And that sticks in my craw. Paul Krugman, Brooks’s counterpart on the Opinion page of the “New […]

I didn’t learn much in college. But I learned a whole hell of a lot in high school, it made me who I am. Now let me clarify that a bit. I did learn a lot in college. Just very little in class. Taught by professors who’d rather be somewhere else, pursuing glory in the […]

The problem is Amanda Palmer! Don’t you get it? A scrappy young ‘un who understands the new technology is ripping off her brethren, all the classically-trained musicians who’ve got no idea who she is who were thinking about strolling down to her gigs to play for free. Don’t you get it? This is exactly how […]