JibJab has news: “It’s Time for Some Campaign!” Borrowing the melody and the refrain of the Bob Dylan song, “The Times They are A Changin’,” JibJab has launched its first flash animation video of the non-primary, presidential season.

David Carr, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, has battled his own crack addition; he has survived cancer. Perhaps strengthened by those struggles, he’s now taking on a force that sometimes sends other reporters running for the hills: The PR department of Fox News.

Does the brash COO of the Tribune Company have any vision of where he is taking it - beyond bailing as fast as he can to stave off potential bankruptcy in the face of the $13-billion debt incurred by Sam Zell’s purchase last year?

One of California’s wealthiest residents and the owner of a New York toy manufacturer were among the moguls identified by Senate investigators today as allegedly using foreign accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Four years later, many of the wealthy donors who funded the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are still very active in molding public opinion.

Microblogging site Twitter has made it easier to navigate every up-to-the-moment update published on its website with a newly acquired search engine, Summize.

Muckety is shocked, shocked, to learn that a lobbyist is leading the effort to raise money to pay for the Democratic National Convention

Pixar’s latest animation, the futuristic WALL-E, gets to have it both ways: On one level, it is a jeremiad against consumerism - and especially about how we anaesthetize ourselves at our own peril by plugging into computers 24/7.

In her fifth year of organizing the annual Women’s Conference, California First Lady Maria Shriver has managed to pull in some big names.

Can an iconoclastic Republican billionaire do for the national debt what former Vice President Al Gore did for global warming?

Some men buy their wives flowers; others, chocolates. Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, bought his third wife, Elizabeth, a community newspaper.

The sweet scents of women’s cosmetics and the stench of politics are an unlikely blend. Yet few corporate boards are more politically active than that of Estee Lauder.

If he is successful in acquiring the Pittsburgh Steelers, what kind of owner will money-managing whiz Stanley Druckenmiller be?

Federal regulators closed IndyMac Bank Friday afternoon and transferred operation to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Bringing donuts, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, got in line at 4 a.m. Friday to buy a new iPhone 3G, just like thousands of Apple fans across the country.

Christie Brinkley’s fourth divorce has finally reached a settlement.

The same Phil Gramm who this week said the economy is not as bad as people think and that we’ve “become a nation of whiners” once tried to peddle so-called “death bonds” to the state of Texas and its teacher pension fund.

There have to be other lawyers in Washington besides Robert B. Barnett, but lately it would seem that Barnett is getting all the work.

Thanks to a Facebook founding friend, Barack Obama now has well over one million Facebook supporters.

How is Vice President Dick Cheney connected to both the TV show Friends and Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzerelli, a character in the TV show Happy Days?

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is one millionaire backer of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who still hasn’t let go. For starters this week, she dissed the presumptive Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, on national TV.

Elvis Costello is bringing his talent to television.

To say IndyMac CEO Michael Perry is in a tough spot is an understatement. He might be on a mission impossible.

A new power-couple has been born. Courtenay Semel and Casey Johnson are dating, reports the New York Post.

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon has a former Oklahoma governor (Frank Keating) and U.S. Senator (Don Nickles) on his Oklahoma City-based company’s board of directors. That seems only fitting. McClendon’s great uncle, Robert S. Kerr, co-founded Kerr-McGee and served as Oklahoma governor and senator.

After months of speaking on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Howard Wolfson, has joined the ranks of talking heads on Fox News. As many observers have noted, there was a time when Democrats ran from, not to, Fox News, but Wolfson says the network has changed.

Maybe there is something in the Dallas water that makes Big D billionaires want to save the country from itself. Today, T. Boone Pickens launched his campaign - Pickensplan.com - to wean the U.S. from foreign oil.

Marvel Comics’ transformation from a bankrupt company with a stable of 5,000 superheroes into a flourishing entertainment company that produced its first self-made movies this year was getting heaps of attention just a few weeks ago.

As dissident shareholder Carl Icahn warned that Yahoo! is “moving toward a precipice” and “it is time for a change,” Microsoft said today it could renew its effort to buy Yahoo! The catch: First Yahoo! shareholders must vote in a new slate of directors at their Aug. 1 meeting.

Absolut Vodka and Kanye West are testing the power of viral marketing by releasing a spoof infomercial online.

On paper, the nomination by President Bush of Michael E. O’Neill to be a federal judge would seem to have a good chance of being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. But O’Neill’s prospects of serving on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia cannot have been helped by a story in Friday’s New York Times.

Its $6 billion buyout may have collapsed, but business life goes on — quite aggressively — for Penn National Gaming.

With the sale of The Weather Channel to NBC Universal and two private equity firms, Landmark Communications hopes to divest its remaining businesses by the end of the year, according to The Virginian-Pilot, which is one of those businesses.

The rumors about Madonna and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez beg for a Muckety map. A-Rod and his wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, are separating, according to the New York Daily News. The split comes amidst infidelity rumors concerning both parties.

Rapidly shriveling stock prices have produced a new misery index for the nation’s beleaguered newspaper industry: sky-high stock dividend yields. So high, some observers believe, that some cash-strapped companies will soon have to cut dividends, putting even more pressure on their stock prices.

For years, Steve & Barry’s, a store where people could buy T-shirts and even designer dresses by Sarah Jessica Parker for less than $10, was seen as an example of “extreme retailing” that worked.

John McCain rearranged his inner circle yesterday, putting political veteran Steve Schmidt in charge. Although Rick Davis will continue to hold the title of campaign manager, Schmidt will have near total control of day-to-day operations.

At lunch Tuesday, former New York Stock Exchange CEO Richard Grasso toasted his appeals court victory with a bottle of Peter Michael chardonnay.

Samuel Israel III, the fugitive hedge fund manager, has come in from the cold.

Many Americans may be mystified about why South Koreans by the tens of thousands are protesting President Lee Myung-bak’s plan to lift restrictions on the import of U.S. beef. Is there something we don’t know about our own meat supply?