Matt Taibbi is now blogging over at Rolling Stone. He started with some overstated (to some extent, I thought) hosannas to his paper's recent scoop/article about General McChrystal. Then he read this column by New York Times semi-Conservative David Brooks and that set Mr. Taibbi off to produce this piece. He's right. A lot of what passes these days for "investigative reporting" is just Enquirer-style gossip-mongering…though I think that's also a lot of what the Rolling Stone piece on McChrystal was, too. Or at least, that was the part of it that got all the attention…and got David Petraeus a new gig.