on the chang gang

soupsoup:

The price is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had been hoping for and a chasm away from its one-time billion valuation.

The deal includes a halfing of Myspace’s staff of 400, as well as other cost cuts. It’s likely Myspace CEO Mike Jones and other top staff will remain only for an interim period.

Good deal considering how often MySpace shows up during ‘To Catch a Predator.’

latimes:

Infants are banned from first class in the airline’s current 747-400s and will also be banned from first class on the airline’s Airbus A380s when they come on line next year.

Good call Malaysia Airlines, but remind me NEVER to fly that airline in coach cus no doubt that’s where they’re shoving all those unwanted screaming infants.

This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason. In order to be persuaded by it, you would have to be open to propositions like this:

“Part of the left’s savage animus…

Boom! Hitchens time!