Check out the bold New York Times exposé, “The Miller Case: A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama.”
Just kidding. This story is thorough in its way. A friend of The Annalog points out that, “they give you all the facts, but don’t follow the facts to their obvious conclusions.” Maybe they could have called the […]

It has come to my attention that Beck may be a Scientologist. His new wife, who is not of divine birth and therefore unworthy of him, is a Scientologist. As Scientologists are supposed to minimize their association with non-Scientologists, this evidence is pretty damning. Other sources support the Beck-Scientology hypothesis as well, but I […]

It’s a good thing CNN has plenty of special logos so we can make sense of our crazy world. Particularly that Hurricane Katrina logo. It will look great sewn onto the pockets of Katrina’s upcoming clothing line.

Gawker pokes fun today at The New York Post’s minimally newsworthy hed: “Jews Observing Yom Kippur.”
But actually the Post is doing a decent job compared to last year’s Stanford Daily, which reported “Students prepare to celebrate Yom Kippur.” This one bothered a lot of people who pointed out rightly that Yom Kippur is a day […]

Can anybody figure out Gary Bauer’s position on the Pledge of Allegiance here:
Gary Bauer, in his “end of the day” e-mail to supporters, expressed bafflement at the idea of gender coming up in the first place: “First, the sex of the nominee is irrelevant,” he wrote. “It doesn’t matter if there are five men and […]

Anna North to a– 11:50 am (2½ hours ago)
>what do you think
>of the video iPod?
On 10/12/05, A– S– < --@---.--> wrote:
> I’m definitely not impressed by the music videos but the TV
> aspect is sorta cool i guess.
I feel the same way as you about the video iPod. It could be pretty cool if, […]

I used to hate Chris Buckley, mainly because of the excerpts I read from his insensitive and weird comic novel Florence of Arabia. Highlights include the renaming of Falluja as Tallulah. Because, you know, Iraq is so campy and all. Also I get him confused with PJ O’Rourke. And then, of course, […]

On the cover of this week’s People:
“Marcia Cross: Her struggle with migraines”
Come on, People. We come to you for respite from the misery of the world, and you offer us only migraines?

The 2005 Download Festival, described on its official web site as “made in the UK, impotred [sic] to the US,” was essentially an excuse to narrowcast a variety of techie advertising to a young and mildly indie crowd. Low point was a long interlude in which principal sponsor Gametap thrust a bunch of ads at […]