Here and There

I haven't written many long posts because, frankly I'm burned out. The business is getting busy and the free time is not as free as it once was. I guess that means I'll just link to other bloggers who have more time than I.

Moveon.org caught lying again? The Recovering Donk has the goods.

Psych joke. Via Voluntary Xchange.

More on the media f$#kup in New Orleans.

NPR, podcasts and bias over at POV.

Mugger on the NY Times layoffs:

(By the way, it'd be interesting to know if Herbert, the lone black op-ed columnist, earns as much as the others. I'm not pulling a Bill Bennett here—and yes, the gambler's black baby abortion comments last week were gleefully distorted by the liberal media—but if Herbert's compensated at a lower level than, say, Krugman, what does that say about race and the Times?)

Since it's unlikely that any of the most visible Times writers will be dispatched, unless through buyouts (Murray Chass, anyone?), I'm taking a different tack. No matter how pleasing it'd be to see Richard Berke, Elisabeth Bumiller, Nicholas Confessore, David Kirkpatrick, Adam Nagourney, Robin Toner, Jon Pareles, A.O. Scott or Adam Liptak sent scurrying to the help-wanted offices of other newspapers, that's not going to happen. It'll be the anonymous (to the public) who'll receive the farewell slices of cake and testimonials from the permanently anguished executive editor Bill Keller.