Bing has a blog

The first post went up a couple of hours ago. A sample: Blogging is different than writing qua writing. In writing, for instance, you often need something to say. Not so with a blog. In fact, the best blogs are lovely hot air balloons rising over the teeming landscape of digital avatars rushing about, to [...]

Earth to Ari Fleischer: Tax rates on the rich haven’t gone up

Noted tax-policy expert Ari Fleischer had a long and deeply bizarro op-ed (subscribers only) in Monday’s W$J. And while I should probably just let the thing go, the piece made me so furious with its misrepresentations and nutso logical leaps that I decided I needed to work through my anger. And what better place to [...]

Nearly information-free post about Google

I had lunch today at Google’s big New York beachhead down on the southern fringe of Chelsea. I’d tell you all about it, but I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in. I didn’t read the thing all that closely–it was on a computer screen at the reception desk, and I was hungry. [...]