Mickey Kaus draws attention to the Los Angeles Times’ recent piece on the real plagiarism at the heart of Dorothy Kearns Goodwin’s work: Either nobody reads the Los Angeles Times, or it’s summer and nobody reads anything, or people are sick of the Doris Kearns Goodwin plagiarism story—but for some reason attention hasn’t been paid… Continue reading

The always captivating Camille Paglia in an email interview conducted by Andrew Sullivan for his web site: “Whatever its financial problems, Salon will go down in history as one of the most influential publications of our time. Its tone, style, and format have been massively imitated by web sites across the political spectrum. I’m very… Continue reading

Corrections dept. According to today’s Boston Globe and other papers, Vivendi is not going to sell off Houghton Mifflin Company. This is good news (I hope). Of course, what huge conglomerates say they’re going to do and what they actually do are two different things (remember the great scene from Wall Street when Charlie Sheen… Continue reading

David Nagel has a very interesting column in Creative Mac. Obviously replying to DV guru Charlie White’s ongoing tests of Intel-based PCs versus Macs when it comes to processing speed. White has shown that the fastest Intel machines render graphics and video (in applications like PhotoShop and After Effects) more quickly than the vaunted Mac.… Continue reading

According to DotcomScoop, “Magazine publisher Ziff Davis is close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a report in The New York Times. The filing would not be a surprise considering ZD has been in constant negotiations with its lenders for the past six months. The company is short on cash, long on… Continue reading