Mark McGwire’s 1997 shot to the heights of the left-field bleachers was one about which to tell your grandkids to tell their grandkids. Team officials nearly immediately claimed the poke would’ve found its resting place 538 feet from home plate. Now we know he was on steroids.
The biggest Shanghai surprise so far is how U.S. participation in China's Expo 2010, once in doubt, has been saved by Hillary Clinton's prodigious fund-raising ability. But it's not the whole story.
Government monopolists at work: They don't even bother to give their website a smart url. Gov. Gregoire, who used to support dumping the liquor board, is having second thoughts.