For a mystery writer like me, much of the why the plane overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles conjecture has been deeply unsatisfying. Like "The pilot and copilot got preoccupied with smarmy online videos/labor-management" theory or the "They fell asleep" hypothesis. Several people I spoke with posited the Lost Boys had...

Let's get it over with: Michael Jackson was a magical entertainer. Okay? You only had to see him to know it was true. Now that I've established my pop culture bona fides, let me also say he was a creep, a likely pedophile, a drug addict, a plastic surgery junkie,...

shmegege [shmeh∙geh'∙geh], noun: Yiddish word meaning buffoon, idiot, ignoramus

A whispering campaign might be better because that would connote shame, or at least discomfort. Instead, anti-Obama e-mails -- by Jews, for Jews -- continue to make the rounds:

Don't believe the Christian business because he really is a Muslim;