In a refreshing move, MSNBC has officially "parted ways" with irrelevant old coonskin-cap-wearing racist Pat Buchanan, whose "kindly old grandpa" demeanor has been enough to keep him on ostensibly mainstream political shows, despite the fact that he is, at heart, a white supremacist.

Gnomish billionaire Sam Zell has announced that he'll soon be leaving Tribune Co: "I will turn it over to whoever the creditors decide they want to run it, and wish them a lot of good luck." Thanks for nothing, jerk.

At the end of the month, True/Slant will be no more. Good while it lasted.

Brian Tierney, who made the transition from Republican flack hated by Philly journalists to head of Philly's newspapers, is finally stepping down as CEO of the Philly papers—after bankrupting them and hiring America's most despicable columnists. Goodbye, sucka. [Philly.com]

Bobby Flay's semi-adequate Spanish restaurant Bolo will close, a victim of the ludicrously insane real estate market. The building in which it is housed has been sold for $12.5 million and will be knocked down and replaced by a luxury condo tower—one that this city sorely needs. [NYT]