We always let this sort of thing slide, but today's offense borders on the insufferable.

Of course not. They should get jobs running the World Bank.

In today's New York Observer, Tom Scocca fills in some of the gaps left in Deborah Solomon's loving profile of Jonathan Safran Foer in this past weekend's Times Magazine. Specifically, some of the emails Foer may have sent Solomon after the piece ran:

In today's New York Post, Keith Kelly reports that New York Times executive editor (and FOJ—friend of Jarvis) Bill Keller is considering shuttering the 'Circuits' section in favor of a new section dedicated to "shopping, fitness and fashion."

We re sure the Times thought that by having staff writers rate the best delivery options in their neighborhoods, they were feeding our hungry mouths with a useful bit of service journalism. Which they have, mind you, but in a different way: now we know where these writers live. Nick Fox on the Upper East Side? Florence Fabricant cruising Amsterdam? It s all coming together now. We're so applying for a delivery gig at Persepolis.
[Requisite Evil NYT Foodies mention: For this very reason, we can guess why Frank Bruni and Amanda Hesser didn t participate in the piece.]
Getting The Best Delivery On The Street Where You Live [NYT]

· We know you're going to find this hard to believe, but the Times might be slightly elitist. There there, don't cry. It's about time you knew the truth. [WWD (2nd item)]
· Slate is just about the last place we want to go for information on the best condoms. Something about the overusage of words like "pleasure" and "sensation" in conjunction with that stuffy maroon page design makes us feel itchy. [Slate]
· Craigslist saga du jour: Evelyn the Food Whore, who may or may not exist. [Craigslist]
· The boroughs may have fended off the corporate invasion for long, but how long will their collective strength last against the Red State Man? [ToTC]
· Ladies and gentleman, your new favorite website: "This blog is predicated on the suggestion that every Wednesday, in the Times Dining Out section, Frank lays a huge faberge egg of hilarity." [The Bruni Digest]

Not since the producers of Bewitched (the TV series, kids, not the Nora Ephron movie) switched Dick Sargent for Dick York have we been so confused by a midstream same name star replacement as this:

· Spoiler Alert! The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's Rob Corddry does something funny and gets caught by so called 'real' journalists who rat him out. These people are truly shameless. [Newsday]
· Not everyone's happy about John Tierney's latest gig. [CJR]
· Garrett M. Graff tries to get White House press credentials but gets the old Heisman instead. Who's a guy gotta sleep with in the GOP to get a damn press pass? [FishBowlDC]
· God is Robert Novak's co-writer. The bad god. [WaPo]

The war-torn Filene s Basement in Union Square is holding a disturbingly titled event called The Running of the Brides, in which brides-to-be will descend upon the Union Square location to find the perfect wedding dress at rock bottom prices. But because there s likely to be more than a little bloodshed at said event, the Post is offering one lucky lady the chance to beat the rush and have first dibs on the selection.

A reader sent us an urgent message about FOXNews 'FOX 411' columnist Roger Friedman's latest dispatch in which he looks closely at important source and asks the tough questions:

Editor & Publisher reports that John Tierney, former 'Big City' columnist for The New York Times has been tapped to fill William Safire's still-warm chair on that paper's 'Op-Ed' page. (Better luck next time, Dave Barry.)

Last week, Stephen Schwartz took a look at Hunter S. Thompson in The Weekly Standard, Rupert Murdoch's proudly unfair and unbalanced journal of opinion. Predictably, he didn't like what he saw.

Usually, New York Times corrections are a matter of life and death. Are there 1.1 million Northern fur seals or simply 750,000 to 800,000? Is the guy's name Craig or Greg? These things are important and need to be clarified.

Our favorite New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser is in Santa Maria, covering the Michael Jackson trial. Reading her first dispatch, we found ourselves wondering, Does Andrea Peyser think Michael Jackson is sort of girly man?

Monica Almeida/The New York Times

This one really needs to be read in full to be believed: Newsweek's Jonathan Alter recounts how he and Hunter S. Thompson inadvertently prompted Tabitha Soren to urge a gullible college kid to ask Bill Clinton if he wore boxers or briefs on MTV in 1992.

In honor of last night's Academy Awards ceremony, Harper's digs deep into its archive for this article from February 1851, the same year as the first Oscar broadcast. (Clint Eastwood won that year, too.) Apparently actors were always overpaid. They were also always mocked by envious journalists (who were probably writing screenplays—or whatever the hell people wrote back in the day to make millions quickly):

· This is the Boondocks cartoon dropped by The Chicago Tribune today. Apparently they were upset that it was a one-panel instead of the traditional three. [Ucomics]
· Can you believe the amazing revelations in Ken Auletta's New Yorker article on CBS? Neither can we: for some reason, it ain't online. [NYer]
· Are you ready for Cookie, the new "upscale lifestyle magazine for sophisticated parents"? We're ready for the spate of trend articles headlined "Cookie Monsters" all about the well-dressed million dollar babies featured in the magazine. We're also ready for the business stories headlined "Cookie Crumbles" when Si Newhouse pulls the plug. [Reuters]
· How to get a gig writing for Los Angeles-area glossies without really trying. [FishBowlLA]

Here's a good way to not get hired for your big budget movie's sequel: equate your evil character with your boss (regardless of how evil he may be).

Award winning journalist Laurie Garrett has decided to resign from Newsday and has written an impassioned resignation memo that Romenesko has printed in full today.