The notion that ‘It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true,’ is about as spot-on and useful as ‘Golly, she ain’t a witch if she done drown.’...

The first Muslim congressman is going to be sworn in using Thomas Jefferson's Quran. God bless America. 2007 will be the hottest year yet. Pet them polar bears goodbye. Stop making fun of grad students. Education keeps you young. A bunch of Whitney Houston's stuff is going to be auctioned off to pay her bills. Unless this is an elaborate CIA plot to entice Osama bin Laden to show up to bid on her......

Last week, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded architect Antoine Predock, designer of Austin's geometrically-gifted City Hall, their highly-coveted AIA Gold Medal. The annual honor is meant to celebrate those "whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." Among the past winners are Thomas Jefferson (1993), Frank Lloyd Wright (1949), Louis Sullivan (1944), LeCorbusier (1961), Louis Kahn (1971), and I.M. Pei (1979) - in......