And if you believe that, I have a bridge I’m looking to sell.

Or “Methinks he doth protest too much.”

I feel sorry for a lot of today’s celebrities, especially athletes. After years of (self?) denial, Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance enhancing drugs. Ballplayer after ballplayer swears on a stack of bibles that he’s clean, only to have the evidence turn out to prove him “misstating.” The fact that not one player was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame must indicate something. (Political prognosticator Nate Silver takes a calculated look at the results.)