For sale on Amazon.com: 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots, by The Boston Globe. Guessing the Giants might quibble with that title. (via E&P)

Quote of the week from NPR's Bob Garfield: "Editors are like bartenders, who must serve up what's ordered provided they know when to say, 'Sorry, bub, you've had enough.'" This explains why I like bars: They must remind me of newsrooms.

The Oracle of Omaha has spoken, and he minces no words in predicting the newspaper industry's declining fortunes. I hope newspaper owners will take this as yet another sign that they ought to be rapidly beefing up their websites (via BankStocks.com): If you were looking at newspaper publishers as possible ...

OK, I'm tired of seeing that Katrina post at the top of my site. It's now five months later, and it seems life goes on. I've been back to New Orleans once, and I'll go again later this month. The city will come back, I'm sure. ...

New Orleans, my hometown and one of the world's great cities, is drowning tonight as water fills it from the east and the west. A massive recovery operation is under way. If you have the means, consider making a donation to the American Red Cross or another relief organization. The city ...

Know what White House spokesman Trent Duffy said regarding those leaked photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear? "The president has been briefed on the situation ..." and he "wants to get to the bottom of it immediately." (emphasis added) Seriously. You can't make up stuff this funny.

Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on Los Angeles (subscription req'd.) contains this nugget: "...perhaps, no city in modern times has been so universally envied, imitated, ridiculed, and, because of what it may portend, feared."

The heroically-named Center for Consumer Freedom is running full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers lambasting the conventional wisdom that obesity is unhealthy. If this were, in fact, a group of consumers tired of being rebuked about their dietary habits, one could certainly sympathize. But, according to this Reuters ...

Arianna Huffington and her webmonkeys have put together an interesting collection of historical resignation speeches and letters. Read Mikhail Gorbachev's. Then read Ginger Spice's.

My former LAT colleague, photojournalist and knitting enthusiast Sedda Kreabs, has come up with a novel way to aid in the ongoing tsunami relief effort. She and her knitting group are selling 'string scrubbies' (knitted dishcloths) and donating $10 from each sale to UNICEF. Knitters from across the ...