"Don't Cry for Me, Judge Scalia!" There was the infamous row over Cheney's duck hunt, and now news that Scalia spoke to an anti-gay group shortly before the Lawrence v. Texas was decided.

We could have forgiven Martha and Michael for doing stupid things. But what the public really couldn't stand was the sheer hubris of covering up their corporate boneheadedness.

The Chinese doctor credited for blowing the whistle on China's SARS epidemic has called for a reappraisal of Tiananmen Square and the military crackdown that ended it.