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Elizabeth Spiers, inspired by Blogapalooza and Happy Robot's thoughts on it, does a little navel-gazing about blogs. On a totally unrelated note, UltraSparky does the same thing, though he's inspired by Tom Coates' little PowerPoint presentation (which is something I think everyone should check out).
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Mike Whybark uncovers the real Deep Throat.
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The Morning News uncovers the shocking scandal of steriod abuse by the theater crowd.
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The New York Review looks at the David Brock controversy. Some quotes:
A few of Brock's former comrades in arms [...] have denounced his credibility. Once a liar, always a liar, conservative critics have suggested, without following the logic backward into an examination of where that leaves his earlier work.
[T]he transformation of Clinton's personal flaws first into documented scandals [...], then into legal battles, and finally [...] into a constitutional crisis was politically inspired and carried out by Clinton's opponents who, like Brock himself, didn't believe many of the stories.
A bit lost in all of this is a remarkable development in what was supposed to be impossible to resolve:a he-said/she-said stand-off about whether Clarence Thomas lied under oath on his way to the Supreme Court. There used to be two sides to this debate. Now the leading author of Thomas's defense has thrown in the towel. Moreover, he has implicated quite a few others in the cover-up of the truth about Thomas, including the Justice himself.
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Paul Kurtz should be (if he's not already) James Randi's best friend.
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The life and times of Chet Baker.