Let's bring all this Eric Schmidt obsession to a glorious climax by citing columnist John C. Dvorak, who says the Google CEO could, as an Apple board member, finally engineer a long-rumored merger of Apple and Sun Microsystems.

We almost missed this blurb from Terry Semel's interview with Fortune Magazine, published Monday. The Yahoo CEO was asked:

CNET thinks Apple will buy Nintendo. Oh yeah, that's totally true, don't you think? For so many reasons:

• Pretty much everyone who works for a newspaper has been or is about to be fired. This is the story of 500 of them. [E&P]
• While Nick and Jessica fall apart, hope springs eternal for lovebirds New Times and Village Voice Media — get a room, you two! [LACityBeat]
• Congratulations once again to Jason Calacanis, for selling out to his third choice. If you can't be with the one you love, and all that. [FishbowlNY]
• There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and George Clooney. [WaPo]