The semi-big news that Microsoft and Yahoo–united, as Dealbreaker charmingly put it, by their “love of Latin sounding next-gen technological platforms (Vista for Microsoft, Panama for Yahoo)”–are again talking to each other about maybe, you know, getting together seems to have left just about everybody but Yahoo’s long-suffering shareholders distinctly underwhelmed. The idea would be [...]
My column is back, in the “Time 100″ issue on newsstands today and online here. It begins: The World Bank is undeniably in crisis. But not because its president, Paul Wolfowitz, got his girlfriend a raise. It is the Wolfowitz saga that has been grabbing all the headlines, of course. The Iraq-war architect was plucked [...]
No, I don’t really have anything against the guy. It’s just fun to beat him. Although, as I went to bed before halftime of the Mavericks-Warriors game last night (it was already 11:30 or so), I missed getting that satisfaction in real time. Matthew Yglesias may wonder how West Coast sports fans cope with such [...]
