"Armstrong did not delve into the details of his doping, and Winfrey never asked."

"He did not explain how it was done, who helped him do it or how, exactly, he perpetuated his myth for so long. He said he was not comf...

"I'm amused that right after 'potato, my penis droops' up pops Quayle."

I say, in the laughing-in-bed first-post-of-the-morning.  Quayle is a regular commenter here, but — who knows, on the internet? — it might b...

"Cyclist Lance Armstrong considering public confession to drug use..."

Isn't that already a confession? But it sounds like what he's talking about doing is saying whatever it is he needs to say to get b...

"Animal activists have been attacking our family, our company, and our employees for decades because they oppose animals in circuses."

"These defendants attempted to destroy our family-owned business with a hired plaintiff who made statements that the court did not beli...

The DC police are investigating the David Gregory incident "to determine if the magazine was in fact real."

Breitbart.com reports (and quotes the criminal statute). What's to investigate? Here 's the "Meet the Press" transcript. G...

"The quickest route to ridicule, it seems, is for aging rockers to proceed as if nothing has changed."

"The truth is, years have passed, and to deny this is a form of visual dishonesty." Yeah, but what counts as denial? The writer k...

Why are you fat?

Barbara Walters asks Chris Christie. He doesn't know why, and if he could figure out why, he'd fix it. Then he says it doesn't m...

Is "the whole tea party movement... in a state of disarray"? The story of FreedomWorks and Dick Armey.

Armey (the chairman) just got an $8 million buyout after questioning Matt Kibbe (the president) over the deal Kibbe made for his book “Host...

Man pretends to be gay and writes a book about it.

Gets criticized. “I feel for the gay community of Nashville, and for every person who trusted [Timothy] Kurek enough to flirt with him, hang...

Did Chief Justice John Roberts "lose his cool"?

I keep reading about this incident , invariably with the focus on the Chief's demeanor, causing me to suspect that the press is covering...

"Munchausen by internet can be bad for your health forum."

So how do you smoke these fakers out? Via Metafilter , where they are "the hipsters of detecting false Internet illness claims. We did ...

Who changed those Benghazi talking points?

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Not the White House or the State Department. Republicans have accused [Susan] of makin...

"MY FUTURE IS BRIGHT and never will it dim."

"I like to consider myself a rare breed. I'm very spontaneous and random… I'm determined and goal oriented. My destiny is laid ...

Does the Supreme Court understand Orwell's "1984"? No!

Yesterday, I was studying United States v. Alvarez , the case, decided last June, about the Stolen Valor Act (which made a crime about lying...

What Petraeus needs to do to get his reputation back.

This is a topic for brainstorming. Meade and I are talking about it after reading a provocative comment in the "Did Petraeus lie" ...

"The Emptiest Candidate in Presidential Election History: Mitt Romney truly believes in nothing."

They've got nothing on him, so they call him nothing . Ah, well, Obama's opponents call him Zero. that makes it Nothing vs. Zero . *...

Tagg Romney would like to jump out of his seat and "rush down to the stage" and "take a swing at" President Obama...

... or so he said, laughing, when asked how he felt when Obama called his dad a liar.  "But you know you can’t do that because, well, f...

At the Equine Dentist Café...

... take the scenic route home.

What if you had to argue that it's good for children to play "What if you had argue?"

In the previous post , where I'd slipped and made a ridiculous statement in the post title — "46% say Clinton won the debate" ...

Michael Jackson "is not in shape enough yet to sing this stuff live and dance at the same time... He's a basket case. Doubt is pervasive."

Emails leak in the legal controversy involving Lloyd's of London, which insured the big 5--concert series that Jackson was supposed to ...