Outgoing Times executive editor Bill Keller's Sunday magazine column (which this week, on the topic of how the potential prosecution of Rupert Murdoch is going to ruin things for the press in the rest of the world, is an appeal to probability inside a false dilemma inside an argument to moderation inside an appeal to consequences) will end in a month. Super-smart guy! Not a fan of the column! In any event, there's a punchline to the news of the column's end that you wouldn't want to miss. Keller is off soon to the increasingly bland and Andy Rooney-ish op-ed pages.

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Please be forewarned that this segment ends with the line, "It's a purr-fect night for a heist." Other than that it is 2 minutes of pure American local news delight.

"Fast fingers, a free website and something to say is about all it takes to start blogging." Sometimes you don't even need that third one!

Solely in the interests of keeping up with a running local "story," such as it is, I suppose it must be pointed out that the last full-time editorial gay male staffer gave notice at the New York Observer this morning, making for a solid 10 out of 10 (oh wait) 10 out of 11 departures in the last four or so months alone all being women and gay men (as far as we can tell from outside (previously we forgot Leon Neyfakh's departure to the Boston Globe!)). Honestly, the Observer masthead is rendered obsolete frequently—as of now, there are zero women staff writers on the masthead, but neither the [...]

What to even say? There's more on this vitally important story here, but I am mostly surprised that they call it "pop" out in the Emerald City. I thought that was just a midwestern thing. Anyway… what a world. [Via]