On the afternoon last week when the Rod Blagojevich jury rendered its verdict, you just know that someone, in some entertainment-industry high-rise office suite somewhere, was seeing the invisible lightbulb click on:

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What if we put juries on TV?

Its a pity readers dont want to pay for stories about the death of traditional media, because otherwise journalists and commentators would be riding a big fat cash cow. In recent months its been impossible to open a newspaper or magazine without being drenched by a tidal wave of waaaaahs and woahs and oh my God were all doomeds from those of us who make our living selling words

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Forget Ads In Books, Lit-Lovers Face An Even More Hideous Prospect

Surely the Olympic rings were turned on their sides this past week. Two giants of their respective sports suffered rare defeats when Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps each lost races.

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Phelps and Bolt suffer rare defeats

Poor John Kasich. When he made that fateful decision in January 2001, he was just doing what politicians have done since time immemorial: he was taking a cushy Wall Street job between a couple of public office gigs in order to pad the family pocketbook.

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Experience on Wall Street? Don't run for office.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Juan Pablo Montoya once again had victory within reach at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Then questionable strategy cost him first the lead, and ultimately the race.

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McMurray makes history at Brickyard

Its a rare All Star hedge fund manager and technology analyst who can also design both computer chips and write software programs. But what about a successful ex Morgan Stanley semiconductor analyst and president of a $1 billion hedge fund with five years of experience as a chip designer and programmer at AT&T Bell Labs who is also the author of four well received non-fiction books, a ...

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Keen On: Andy Kessler Explains How We Got Here, And How Tech Can Save Us

Bob Sheppard gave voice to a building. He transformed all that concrete and steel of Yankee Stadium into a trusted old friend because, well, that voice was reliable, it was unhurried and it was always there

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Tom Verducci: Fulfilling the request of the man who gave voice to Yankee Stadium

Many of us dream of writing the next big summer best-seller. But at a recent event, a top literary agent delivered a dose of reality to Boston-area writers looking to get published.

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So You Wanna Be A Writer?

Richard Kinky Friedman , the country singer and detective novelist who has twice run for Texas governor, says hes through with politics.

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Kinky Friedman, Texas Troubadour, Boots Politics for Music Tour

Dr. Wally Carroll of Oakdale is a modern Renaissance man

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The Best Medecine: For Oakdale doctor, it's having many interests, a thirst for learning and a love for god