I’m a researcher. Let me give you the latest example… My headphones broke. You know, the connection, by the plug, so that one ear goes in and out. In the seventies, you’d get this fixed. Today, it costs more to repair than to rebuy, and the art of repair seems to have gone by the […]

It’s about what you know. Because Tina Brown is hopelessly lost in the last century, she buried the most important story of the year, putting it behind a paywall in the initial digital edition of “Newsweek.” “Eunuchs of the Universe: Tom Wolfe on Wall Street Today” is not the besuited writer’s best work. The introduction […]

Oscar for the funniest speech goes to… This is bouncing around the Internet burnishing Jennifer Lawrence’s image while the Academy is home slapping its back for a miniscule ratings increase not admitting it has nothing to do with Seth MacFarlane or the show itself but good movies and the desire to play where everybody else […]

It’s the ultimate in participation. It all started with rap. You didn’t need training, you didn’t need to know anything about music or the music business. You just lifted a track and freestyled above it. Then came reality television. Where suddenly people could be famous for nothing. Whether it be the denizens of the “Real […]