A astro-physics friend of mine once said that when companies with large balance sheets begin that spiral into becoming a black hole or neutron star, you can tell the process has begun because it creates a jet of high-energy engineers moving away and at right angles. :-)
At least they won't die alone.
After the whole Arrington drama I think it would do Techcrunch a lot of good to stop talking about internal AOL politics for a while. Reading articles like this doesn't help their credibility in my eyes, and I'd be very surprised if it actually helped their credibility with anyone at all.
Strictly and ecological move, only need to flush once.