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...recycling their subjects' most famous hits and their more infamous falls from behavioral grace, provide the last sentimental postscripts to their subjects' celebrity arcs. They have for years deserved parody, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is that long-awaited - by me, at least - of comic commentary on breathless mythomania. Not since This is Spinal Tap have I had such a good time watching amiable idiocy stumble on toward uncertain glory...
...after much breathless speculation, George Mitchell named names. Eighty six, in fact, in his long-awaited report on steroid abuse in baseball released Thursday. Among them: 55 hitters, 31 pitchers and 33 active players on a list that ranged from legends (Barry Bonds) to all-stars (David Justice, Eric Gagne, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Miguel Tejada) to staples of the transaction column (Josias Manzanillo, Nook Logan...
Hordes of frenzied shoppers had barely descended upon shopping malls and retail stores at the crack of dawn on the day now dubbed Black Friday when the breathless speculation about how weak or strong this year's holiday shopping season began. The dirty little secret, however, is that the day is actually not a very good predictor of holiday sales overall. "No matter how successful Black Friday is, it's the weeks before and after Christmas that will determine how successful of a holiday season it is," says Scott Krugman, of the National Retail Federation...
...know that. In what feels like a breathless crescendo, he launches his health-care manifesto. He suggests eliminating Medicare and Medicaid and using those funds to provide health-insurance vouchers for all. In his model, the more precarious your health, the larger the voucher, which you could use to purchase plans from private insurance providers...
There are empty seats at some of Barack Obama's meetings now. His media coverage isn't as breathless as it used to be. His poll numbers have been static, with the important exception of Iowa, where he is creeping upward. His performances have been static too, nourishing but unexciting. He has been more herbivore than carnivore in debates. All of which occasioned that most banal of modern journalistic ceremonies in the days leading up to the Oct. 30 Democratic debate: a fevered, unsolicited-advice orgy. None of the advice was substantive, of course. It was all about tactics...