Lesson: Don’t tell your mother some cockamamie story.

In my family, it was the opposite. My mother’s brothers all had to quit school at 16 and go to work in the coal mines, except the youngest brother who was good at football and ended up with a scholarship to college (became a teacher). The girls all graduated high school then immediately went to work. All but one moved…

Thanks, I misunderstood there for a moment.

His handlers are trying to keep him in the running for endorsement deals.

With his speed, he could have circled the whole island and made it back home before he was missed.

The announcers last night said that they were required to run in the same lane as they had during the contested race.

Now we understand why Lochte was worried about getting into trouble.

“Hickey also reportedly fell ill shortly after he was arrested, and was taken to the hospital to receive medical attention.”

I’m surprised that a woman with that little body fat has a regular menstrual cycle. Good for her for being straightforward.

OMG, I want to spend an evening in a pub with these two.

Or a desert or state animal. The Nevada state fish is the cutthroat trout. How about the Las Vegas Cutthroats?

You could actually say that about a fair number of things in Canada.

Do you mean the National Portrait Gallery?

And one who appears to learn something in one episode, only to forget it by the next.

“Between Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, and Simone Biles, we could very realistically be watching the greatest swimmer, runner, and gymnast of all-time compete in the same Olympic Games. ”

I grew up in an area with a lot of immigrant families, particularly from China, India, Korea, and Vietnam. Everyone was against discrimination, but as a kid I heard a LOT of interesting stuff from grannies as soon as one of their grandchildren appeared to be dating someone from outside their ethnicity or country of…

Brazil may not do a great job of tracking and reporting on illnesses.

Water from the bays flows out into the coastal zone. There would be some dilution, of course, depending on the proximity of the bays to the beaches. Even given that, people in that region are contacting the water regularly.

...and they pay through the nose to live there, too.

CNN is reporting that some of the Australian athletes did evacuate for the fire but returned to their rooms to find that they’d been robbed of a laptop and some team shirts.