It occurred to us yesterday that 600 Starbucks closing and SUV sales tanking, really has marked a sea change. It's the end of an era. It's the end of the time where Americans could commute in a RV while drinking a $10 cup of joe, borrow against their interest-only sub-prime mortgage and rest assured they would all be taken care of in their cushy print newspaper job. Nope those days are over. Not to...

We shuddered a little when we read Rabbi Richard Rushfield's beautifully moving piece on "Todd Smithson, husband of Carly, the greatest singer in Idol history." It wasn't the sad-but-sweet tale of how Smithson became something of an outcast after he tattooed his face that made us quiver. It was the the fact that the good rabbi met with the Idol-spouse in Smithson's San Diego tattoo parlor. We know...

"Accidental" Viral Marketing? We Think Not. Chris Hine is reporting that Gatorade and the ad agency it hired, Element 79, had "no idea" who posted that supposedly shelved commercial featuring the super-fly ball girl. Uh-huh. Just like we had "no idea" that florescent orange was an unnatural color for a beverage. Bloggers Are The Worst: Pity poor David Sarno who is now SIX posts into the BoingBoing/...

Black Gold is a new series on TruTV that premiered last month. We finally caught an episode of it last night. We're scratching our heads. Who is the slightest bit interested in watching a bunch of sweaty, tank top clad, beef cakes working in the secluded sun-drenched oil fields of Texas? It's just a bunch of rough necks, soaked in run-off water worried about pulling their pipe out of the ground. Wh...

Yesterday it was announced that Rush Limbaugh signed a $400 million - 8 year contract. We were waiting to get a reaction from other people in radio but they were stunned into silence. Remember kids - don't do drugs - it could ruin your life and the lives of everyone around you. Speaking of tragedy, with all the lay off news for print papers, here's another kick while you're down: according to Radar...