How painful to see the destruction of a heroine. Marion Jones — winner of 3 Olympic gold medals — has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators and admitted about taking steroids.
The city in question: Beijing. Volunteers wearing satin Queuing Day sashes shooed rush-hour commuters into lines at busy subway stations, while hospital administrators and a few city officials handed out long-stemmed roses to pat…
Here 's a WaPo article on the sophisticated software companies are using to track public opinion as it is expressed on the internet: To capture the chatter, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a giant in the industry, uses software that col…
The NYT has a big article on "Project Runway": During Fashion Week in New York a catwalk show by four "Project Runway" designers was such a hot ticket that more than one industry pro seemed miffed at having t…
The WaPo is giving out its own Olympic medals . Example: Best Johnny Weir Quotes Gold: "I never felt comfortable in this building. I didn't feel my inner peace, I didn't feel my aura. Inside I was black" (after …
Every time I mean to watch the Olympics, like tonight, when I was going to watch the ice dancing finals, I mindlessly click on some news site that reveals who won the medals. But I was cleaning the basement today and I found an o…
The kids raised money for the Special Olympics by promising to jump in Lake Mendota. Then it turned out to be -17 on the day they'd promised to do it. According to Paul Taylor, a University of Wisconsin freshman, officials h…
Why do figure skaters dress the way they do? It's not cool and it has no correlation to fashion in general. Why don't they require all the Olympic contenders to wear a solid black unitard? Wouldn't it be nice not to …
You can go to Central Park and see "The Gates," or you can look at the pictures of it that are everywhere, and we all know what it looks like by now. But my question is whether anyone is saying anything interesting abou…
I wasn't really properly simulblogging the Convention last night, and I'm told that I had my priorities straight . Yikes! Going over to Vodkapundit for that last link, I saw this new poll information . Wow! That's dis…