Introduction Palin comes out firing with the controversial claims. For instance: Calvin Coolidge is “one of our most overlooked presidents.” Doesn't Glenn Beck hold a patent on making it seem like the people who held power right before the Great Depression were American heroes? Sarah also makes reference to “my beautiful grandbaby.”

The introduction ends with this rather disturbing mission statement: “This is my America, from my heart, and by my heart. I give it now to my children and grandchildren, and to yours, so they will always know what it was like in America when people were free.” (Just for starters, this presumes that there will still [...]

I think for a while we've all had a sense that there was a problem in our schools. Poor test scores, failing public schools, achievement gaps, all that bad stuff. We know that the Internet has made it impossible for young Americans, people barely eligible to vote while playing the lottery in a strip club, to "grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed." In other words, we are not good at cheating anymore.

There was a moment, at the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee this weekend, when the stylishly-hatted 11-year-old David M. Habibi got the word "schadenfreude," and after exclaiming "Yes!" at getting a word he knew, spelled it correctly. And then while he was walking back to his seat, pronouncer and 1980 champion Dr. Jacques Bailly all but pulled a Mean Joe Greene on young David by sneakily congratulating him, as David was walking away, on having just become a big brother.

There are something like 300 million people in America. That's a lot, and so some of them are bound to have the same name. And when that happens, the only logical thing to do is to make a chart.

In this case, we present two David Bartons.

Would you rather go home with a man who had a nose job, must have his nipples bitten during sex and wants to get married and have children now-or one who lives with two tigers and ten pit bulls, must have lights on during sex and built a bomb shelter for the apocalypse?

Would you rather date someone who sleeps with his eyes open, whose job is his number one priority, and who lives with a former lover-or someone who talks during movies, whose mom comes before his girlfriends, and who's a "3-minute man"?

When it comes to the Cordoba House / Park 51 project, better known as GROUND ZERO TERROR MOSQUE, it really is not worth discussing with people down in Lower Manhattan. That is because they do not really want to talk about it.

The NBA Draft: it's where dreams are made, franchises broken and Patrick O'Bryant mercilessly mocked. Where ESPN TV announcer Jay Bilas goes on and on about teenage boys' length (and it is still okay to do that without any tinge of irony?), where suits range from the file cabinet to the Colonel Sanders to the vanilla sheriff to whatever this and this are. The draft kicked off with NBA honcho David Stern at the lectern at Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Liberty. He put the Wizards on the clock and then we are treated to a flashback to the Kwame Brown era. That's a decidedly mean-spirited [...]