Syphy

The network that chose to be named after venereal disease has decided that John Clute's column panders to the unimportant literate demographic and thus can be dumped.

New reason to hate the Patsies

The governor of Massachusetts said Friday there is no connection between big donations to him and the Democratic Party from the family that owns the New England Patriots and the state's support for development across the road from Gillette Stadium.

Playing Hobb with the book chains

One undocumented feature of the Intarwebs is that the memory of a financially unsuccessful book can linger like Abu Hasan's fart. Fortunately there is a way of dealing with that. The book chains enforce the banishment for insufficient commerciality but are either too forgiving or not resourceful enough to follow the malefactors through identity changes. Thus, Sarah Monette has stepped into one of the last remaining phone booths and emerged as Katherine Addison.