Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz says that besides the Judith Miller controversy, NYT newsies are upset the paper is cutting 45 newsroom jobs.

There are simply way more men's bylines appearing in prestigious U.S. public affairs mags than women's.

Victor Navasky, longtime publisher of The Nation, has stepped aside in favour of Katrina vanden Huevel, who will keep her editor's title.

A tidbit: The Bush years have been very good to The Nation!

"Any suspects in the killing?" I asked the two police officers standing over the corpse.

"About 10,000 termites," one of them laughed.

The poor maple tree, which had led a peaceful life just south of Harbord St., had been ravaged by something. The tree wasn't uprooted by Sunday's crazy winds; it snapped off at the base.

I went and touched it, and the wood was completely rotten.

The cops pointed out that the larvae had bored right to the top of the tree. It was doomed.

Unfortunately, the tree damaged two cars in its death throes. May the insurance companies be kind to their owners.

A fella can dream, can't he?