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Today in Tabs: All Spoilers
Neetzan Zimmerman announced Friday that he was leaving Gawker to become Chief Tween Angst Editor for meme-garbage app startup Whisper. Gawker will miss the revenue generated by Zimmerman's 100 million...
View ArticleFall of France II: How a Cockerel Nation Became an Ostrich
Last March, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that being rude to the president of France could no longer amount to an automatic criminal offense. (This after a protester called the...
View ArticleJPMorgan to Pay $1.7 Billion to Settle Madoff Case
(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co will pay a $1.7 billion penalty to settle charges by U.S. federal authorities that the bank failed to report suspicious activity relating to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi...
View ArticleWho Wants to Buy the New York Times?
People come to New York City for all sorts of reasons: to study; to travel; to become doctors and lawyers and writers; to make it on Broadway or as stand up comedians or to toil in the kitchens of...
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Today in Tabs: I Guess Tabs Are Just My 'Thing'
CES is paying off already! Michael Bay, pitching a new Samsung TV, screwed up his lines, got the teleprompter operator lost, and found himself unable to improvise a few words about his own job or the...
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Newsweek Special Issue: Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Scrapbook
Newsweek's Special Issue: Marilyn Monroe's Lost Scrapbook NewsweekWhat started as an entire issue of Marilyn Monroe’s favorite photographers sharing their their favorite pictures and anecdotes about...
View ArticleHemingway’s Homophobia
There may be few better insights into the mind of one of America’s most revered writers, Ernest Hemingway, than a previously unpublished letter, written on Valentine’s Day 1925, to William B. “Bill”...
View ArticleArctic Chill Exposes Weakness Of U.S. Natural Gas System
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brutally cold weather this week laid bare critical weaknesses in the Northeastern U.S. natural gas system, leaving some states paying vast sums for supplies as arctic weather...
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In Sochi’s Shadow
“Our dream is to compete in the Olympic Games as Abkhazians,” Djarnaz Beniya told me. Beniya, a wrestling trainer who coached Denis Tsargush to a bronze medal in the 2012 Olympic Games, is a resident...
View ArticleEmails Link Christie Staffer, Lane Closings In NJ Political Controversy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Claims that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administration closed traffic lanes at the George Washington Bridge as payback against a political opponent were boosted on...
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Today in Tabs: Pogue Mahone
Yahoo's new tech columnist and noted obnoxious person David Pogue took to the stage at CES (skip to 2:00 unless you want to really suffer) to launch Yahoo! tech, which is yet another tech blog. But...
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Let’s Get Lost: The Missing Marilyn Scrapbook
“My friend Sam Shaw gave me this scrapbook in 1973,” says Lawrence Schiller, a photojournalist and author, whose latest book is Marilyn & Me. “I was at my office on Sunset Boulevard. Sam brought it...
View ArticleA $2.6 Billion Slap on the Wrist
The settlement of criminal and civil claims this week against JPMorgan, which for two decades facilitated Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, reflects the attitude of Attorney General Eric Holder, who...
View ArticleChris Christie’s Road Rage
For days pundits have been offering the oh-so-predictable bromide that Chris Christie needed to apologize for his aides’ role in causing a four-hour traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge...
View ArticleRelease the Hounds!
While declining tax revenues and increasing costs mean that many municipalities have slashed spending on quality-of-life programs for people, domesticated canines fared quite well: The number of dog...
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America Abandons Afghanistan to Drug Lords
This year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war. They’ll leave behind an undefeated enemy – as well as an Afghan government that’s shaky, corrupt and only nominally...
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Today in Tabs: Bridges of Bergen County
The Yahoo! tabs don't stop. After yesterday's post, Yahoo!'s David Pogue sat down for a hard-hitting interview with Yahoo!'s Nick D'Aloisio which included such tough questions as "YOU'RE THE YOUNGEST...
View ArticleTaking a Toll on Chris Christie
Fighting for his political life on Thursday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie offered up a line he may ultimately regret: "I am not a bully."It immediately evoked Richard Nixon's infamous flat denial...
View ArticleCranked Up Intelligence
In Washington, D.C., they say, your enemies stab you in the back, your friends stab you in the chest. So it was earlier this week, with ex-Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s lacerating portrait of...
View ArticleWest Virginia Chemical Spill Triggers Widespread Tap Water Ban
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for the state of West Virginia on Friday, ordering federal aid in the aftermath of a chemical spill that has left up to 300,000 people...
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