​I haven't said anything about the Ryan Braun performance-enhancing drug controversy because I don't want to rush to judgment. I'll do my rushing after all analysis, arguments, and counterarguments are in.

Meanwhile, there's another issue to consider. Yesterday, ESPN.com's Jayson Stark argued that if Braun is proven to have used banned substances, he should still be allowed to keep his 2011 National League Most Valuable Player award.

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The above clip shows one of the tensest moments from last night's debate between Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. This no-holds-barred throwdown held in Texas was full of accusations, including Gingrich lambasting his opponent, "You had a great radio show," and Cain making the shocking assertion, "You spent a lot of years successfully in Congress."

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Just one of the 49 faces of influence.

​All we're saying is, Russell Brand (#49) has got to be pissed. Steven Slater of the blond aerodynamic locks (good for emergency evacuations down airplane slides) and infamous on-board freak-out has been declared 48th of the 49 most influential men from AskMen.com. How is Slater influential? Well, he has a Halloween costume. That's not nothing.

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​Not by me, of course. That's disgusting. But out there in this wild city, somewhere between the men with no eyebrows and the old lady chomping on a raw potato, are people who were taken aback by the New York Times article entitled "Study Scours New York Subway, Finds Rats Remain Wily." It was a playful piece, really, all "hairy critters" and "rodent jamborees" up in your subway station and the city trying to kill them. The trash room, the piece said, was like "a restaurant" for the vermin. "There's not enough traps around to trap all the rats in New York City," it concluded. Today, a chorus of defenders wonder why, oh why would we ever want to get rid of all the lovely rats, fellow creatures of god? They don't even rape, wrote one pro-rat weirdo.

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