Just want to make sure before I leave for the holidays that everyone's happy about this Bill Cosby rape story.

Okay, I added the word "thrice"—which, again, I could have sworn I put in, but obviously missed in the rush to get the article together. (Although, while it adds to the damning evidence, I disagree that it's absolutely crucial to the story.) But I think noting that his schedule consisted of a weekend seminar is clear…

Okay. Anything else?

Leaving "UMass" off Amherst was a mistake, which I've corrected. What else are you referring to?

And a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas, ElDan.

I keep the copy boys running my carbons to the typesetters round the clock!

How the hell do you figure I get paid by the word?

LOTS OF BOYS IN CUBA FOR OBAMA TO WATCH.

WHY DID OBAMA LEAVE THE GALAXY UNGUARDED?

It's okay to dream that Jared Leto came up with Holy Guacamole, if you're dreaming on the path of a dreamer.

This is about entertainment news. Although I agree that was often entertaining.

Click on the E.T. link in the first paragraph.

It was shitty.

Yes, I acknowledged—both in this and in the previous story I wrote on the Sony hack—that we reported on some of the earliest revelations, back when they still seemed sort of innocuous. While, yes, I still think that those reports were fairly silly, I agree that in principle, we probably shouldn't have reported on…

But when reporting on, for example, Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin's publicly issued statements on their emails where they joke about Obama—and those statements refer to information revealed in those leaked emails—what would you have me do? Not provide any info at all on what they're apologizing for? That seems like a…

As you might have noticed from some of the comments, some people even consider it unscrupulous to write about the public reaction to the leaked info. It's really not a great situation all around—especially as this is clearly the biggest entertainment story going on right now, and we can't just ignore it completely.

Hey, you too. And if you can find a moment within there to read the article, you might also be interested in the update, where Mark Wahlberg confirms that even he's spent the past 26 years assuming that he blinded a guy, thus creating all that "lazy journalism" you were complaining about.

Oh yeah. Real fun.

Yeah, as I said right up top, those leaked emails have a ton of info about what they might or might not do with their franchises. We're not going to get into that. First of all, it's just chatter; secondly, it's criminally obtained chatter. (And that chatter in particular, come on…. I'll believe it when I see it.)