Delectable morsels from around the web:

-- From Jonah Goldberg from The New York Post opinion pages: ''McCain denies any wrongdoing, and I'm inclined to believe him. The Times' sources, anonymous staffers portrayed as disgruntled, offer no proof beyond their suspicions. The woman herself has neither confirmed any inappropriate relationship nor alleged any other improper behavior.

''Now, if the story were true, it wouldn't be trivial. If McCain is pulling strings for lobbyists in exchange for a little after-hours baron-and-the-milkmaid action, he should be held accountable. And adultery is wrong.

''But, again, I'm willing to give McCain the benefit of the doubt. What I'm confused about is why the Times splashed this story on Page One as if it were of blockbuster importance.''

From The New York Times Sunday Travel issue: ''We've spent two days attending seminars on The Nation magazine's Alaska cruise; we've talked about the Bush presidency and prison reform and single-payer health care.

''... The five hours of discussion provided ample opportunity to see some of the cruise's speakers in action; by day's end it was clear that the encyclopedic and oratorically gifted Mr. Nader was gradually winning people over, and that most of the cruisers thought the Nation publisher and editor-in-chief Katrina vanden Heuvel was, as one gentleman put it to me, 'a total fox.'''

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-- Josh Quittner interviewed Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, who, for some reason, gets really worked up over The New York Times. From CNN Money: '''I can't take it anymore,' he wrote on his blog (blog.pmarca.com). 'I hereby inaugurate my New York Times Deathwatch, which will continue until the last Sulzberger has left the building.' The piece goes on to rip apart the Times' business strategy top to bottom, attacking everything from the techno-illiteracy of its board of directors (which boasts experts in marsupials and snack cakes but almost no expertise in the Internet) to its recent per-copy price hike. 'When you have an obsolete, inconvenient physical product that nobody wants in an era of universal online access, the appropriate strategy is clearly to raise the price,' he snarked. (He's not the only one gunning for the Times. A coalition of hedge funds just bought up 10% of the company and wants to install four of its own candidates on the board.)

''Andreessen has always been a blunt, plainspoken guy.''