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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
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RAMPANT SPECULATION DEPT.

 Yes, This Is Sammy Sosa 

Blogosphere abuzz, but no word what's up with ex-slugger

Nov 6, 09 7:27 PM CST

 Man Pops Question 
 During Gay Marriage 
 Hearing 

See, Kanye, this is an interruption the crowd actually liked

Nov 6, 09 2:15 PM CST
WATCH THE VIDEO


 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

Nov 6, 09 12:41 PM CST

 Pre-Scandal 
 Fergie Spills 
 to Cosmo 

Before Josh Duhamel's stripper fiasco, singer applauded him in mag

Nov 6, 09 11:09 AM CST

 Rihanna: 'I Was 
 Battered, I Was 
 Bleeding' 

'I fended him off with my feet,' she says of Chris Brown attack

Nov 6, 09 10:27 AM CST
TIPS FOR THE MANSIONLESS


 What Broke 
 Celebs Can 
 Teach Us 

Don't make the same mistakes as Nicolas Cage and Annie Leibovitz

Nov 6, 09 9:38 AM CST
UNFAVORITE THINGS

 Oprah to Rosie: 
 Stop Calling 
 Me Gay! 

Winfrey to O'Donnell: 'I don't want to hear it anymore!'

Nov 6, 09 9:17 AM CST
APOLOGIES dept.

 Shatner Reads the Real Levi 

Conan O'Brien sorry for fake Tweets, but not too sorry

Nov 6, 09 7:29 AM CST
NIKKI FINKE

 Oprah Sets Date for 
 Cable Launch, 
 Show Move 

Discovery Channel to media mogul: 'Move it or lose it'

Nov 5, 09 1:50 PM CST
BLOG POWER

 Emma 
 Thompson 
 Drops Support  
 of Polanski 

Web petitioners change actress' mind about case

Nov 5, 09 12:17 PM CST

 New Site 
 Decodes 
 Rap Lyrics 

Rap Exegesis breaks down Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, and more

Nov 5, 09 11:42 AM CST

 'Naughty' Mickey Hits the Wii 

Disney dares to reimagine him for new generation

Nov 5, 09 11:14 AM CST
SIZE MATTERS

 Johnston 
 Nervous About 
 His Johnson 
 in Playgirl 

Levi concerned about how it will look—especially in an ice rink

Nov 5, 09 10:57 AM CST


 I Went Back to 
 Chris Brown: 
 Rihanna 

Says it takes 'eight or nine' times for an abused woman to leave

Nov 5, 09 10:25 AM CST
HOT LEGAL ISSUES

 Prejean 
 May Sue 
 —This Time, 
 Over Sex Tape 

Former Miss Cali's lawyer considering breach of contract lawsuit

Nov 5, 09 9:51 AM CST
TINY COURT FILINGS

 Ex Slaps 
 Mini-Me With 
 Restraining Order 

Beauty queen ex says Verne Troyer threatened her

Nov 5, 09 9:22 AM CST
WATCH THE VIDEO

 Shatner 
 Poeticizes 
 Levi's Tweets 

William Shatner back on Conan for dramatic reading of Johnston's posts

Nov 5, 09 9:00 AM CST
FERGIE'S DEVOTED HUBBY

Stripper: I Had 'Lots of Sex' With Josh Duhamel

Nicole Forrester reveals affair with 'freaking hot' married man

Nov 5, 09 8:48 AM CST
SPICOLI LITE

 Sean Penn's 
 Son Dodges 
 Drug Charges 

But Hopper may have been kicked out of another school for drugs

Nov 5, 09 8:20 AM CST
HUH, HOW ABOUT THAT?

 Sex Tape 
 Got Prejean 
 to Settle Suit 

TMZ says it's had too-racy-to-post video for months

Nov 4, 09 6:51 PM CST

 Appendicitis Takes Beck Off Air 

Fox host has appendix removed, out indefinitely

Nov 4, 09 6:09 PM CST
WELL...SORTA

 PETA Drove Me to Kill My Cat 

After a series of potential veiled threats, woman puts cat down

Nov 4, 09 11:40 AM CST
KINKY INTERVIEW

 Nicole Kidman: 
 I've Explored 
 Fetish Sex 

She admits to sexual experimentation, talks 'danger' of marriage

Nov 4, 09 10:55 AM CST
FATHER OF THE YEAR

 Dad Releases 
 Tape of 
 Hysterical 
 LiLo 

Michael Lohan pulls latest stunt on Lindsay with audio recording

Nov 4, 09 10:51 AM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

2
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

7
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

13
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

19
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

20
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

15
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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