Wow, this buyout is so sad. I can't believe Jennifer 8. Lee won't be writing for the Times anymore!

Quoted: The New York Times buyouts are done, leaving only a round of layoffs to get up to 100 staff cuts before the year's end. In January, the paper will be a different place. A look at what was lost, below.

SO true...

Quoted: Cancer has a cure. That breakthrough medical news is not the result of grueling medical research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, it is brought to us via fading actress-cum-Thighmaster queen-cum-New Age health guru Suzanne Somers.

Such a depressing thing to read as I eat lunch at my desk...

Quoted: Even if you think you have an energetic lifestyle, sitting is how most of us spend a good part of our day. And it's killing us — literally — by way of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

The Washington Post wouldn't have given that column to some random fool who had no prior background in climate science, so why did Palin get it? Since when has she been analyzing scientific data on global warming? Must've been while she was writing Going Rogue and going on book tour...

Quoted: A former vice president and a former vice presidential nominee are engaged in a public battle over climate change, a tiff sparked by Sarah Palin's op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post and furthered by Al Gore's rebuttal on MSNBC.

I admittedly had never even heard of Tuvala before...

Quoted: The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu was rebuffed in its quest to demand strong action to curb global warming.

Hm, good to hear!

Quoted: The maker of Lucky Charms, Trix and Cocoa Puffs says it will further reduce the sugar in its cereals marketed to children.

It's crazy how early the snow's hitting the East Coast this year... Let's hope it's not like this for Christmas travel!

Quoted: In a scene stretching from the Midwest through New England, a "monster" snow storm is disrupting hundreds of flights and shutting down highways.

This is an ironic statement from Rupert Murdoch, considering the Wall Street Journal just pulled an article for stealing content from other publications: "Some rewrite, at times without attribution, the news stories of expensive and distinguished journalists who invested days, weeks or even months in their stories—all under the tattered veil of 'fair use.'"

Quoted: Rupert Murdoch writes in The Wall Street Journal that government subsidies and bailouts of newspapers are a greater threat than digital technology. The news industry must remain free, independent and competitive.

Our response to the Mona Sarika incident...

Quoted: On December 3, we found out that we'd been published in the Wall Street Journal. Well, sort of. Many of our words made it into an online column -- but our names were nowhere to be found.