What Malcolm Gladwell said: “I must say that my own experience with this blog has only hardened my belief in the intrinsically derivative nature of blogging.” See, there, I just proved it. Speaking of which, Steve Job’s parody diarist thinks Malcom Gladwell’s hairdo has something about it that is intrinsically derivative of Bernie from Room 222.

The Tennessean’s Gang thang, update: A day after running a story suggesting there are 15,000 gang members and “affiliates” in Nashville, the paper followed up today with an article suggesting that maybe it is possible perhaps that a shooting at a “baptism party” was gang-related — or at least there was one person at the party who was rumored maybe to be “affiliated” with a gang, and thus the gang-connection is worthy of the lede and headline. Let me once more reiterate that I am in no way suggesting there is not youth crime in Nashville and the death of someone at this function is a tragedy: My complaint is with whoever at the Tennessean is making the editorial decisions on this scare-mongering fake investigative series. It is coming off lamer than a TV news sweeps-week gimmick.

Also, while I make it a practice to refrain from discussing on this weblog others’ sentence structure and grammar (people in glass blogs blah, blah), I had to post the following quote from today’s story to ask some of the editorial-types who read this blog whether or not it sounds if the Tennessean is clearing a baby from any gang connections:

“Gabriel, Juan and Claudia are cousins of the child who was baptized and apparently had no connections whatsoever with the shooters, Corcoran said.”

Quick takes before I step on a plane: