Today's news: Lincoln was queer and a child actor wrinkles his brow and BECOMES Howard Hughes. The media has descended to dumbness unthinkable but have to admit we love the Kerik Scandale. What a buffoon. Actually why blame the media? It's the audience, soooooooooo many of them, that is increasingly barbarous and uneducated.

Much as I try to Like the Observer it defeats me every time with its cute high school approach to culture (hey we're all part of the in-crowd in the locker room). It is rather like Arthur Carter's sculpture which I recently reviewed at Salander's -- all surface, very much the "inspired" amateur's apprehension of form.