Dr. Elliot J. Pellman, the medical adviser for Major League Baseball recently gave testimony to Congress in which he said that baseball's steroid policy is hunky-dory. His biographical statements in the past have said that he has a medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Somebody went investigating, however, and found out that Dr. Pellman attended medical school, not in Stony Brook, but rather in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the embarrassing results of the full investigation were published on the front page of today's New York Times. However, The Bosh does not believe that Americans who go to Guadalajara for medical school do so because their academic achievement wouldn't have gotten them into any US school; they go because they like the sunshine and the chimichangas. (By Scott Rose)

Today's New York Times carries an article on the trend among museum gift shops to carry high-end jewelry with some relation to the art on display. The American Museum of Natural History, for example, is selling a $125,000 bracelet in conjunction with an exhibition of American Indian jewelry. The Heard Museum of Pheonix sold an opal and jade necklace and matching earrings for $34,000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art unloaded an amethyst choker with a biblike spray of amethyst drops for $60,000; the title of the Times article is "Let's Hit the Gift Shop, and Drop $60,000. The Bosh is all for it. (By Scott Rose)

Dick and Lynne Cheney's lesbian daughter Mary, whom the conservative commentator Alan Keyes called a "selfish hedonist" during the Republican convention, is set to write a memoir, to be overseen by Mary Matalin, a political consultant and close adviser to the Cheneys. What that means, of course, is that Mary the lesbian couldn't write her way out of a paper bag. Although Dick Cheney has said he is against a consititutional amendment prohibiting gay rights, Mary the lesbian has never said a public word on the subject, preferring to campaign for the party of unnecessary wars, extraordinary renditions, and repression. Here is what Ms. Matalin had to say about Mary the lesbian. "She had to remain reticent and her parents had to remain very reticent until the 2004 campaign was over because she had a job to do. We all had jobs to do." In other words, Mary the lesbian was in a position of power to speak out in favor of gay rights and make an impact, but she didn't take advantage of the moment. Instead, showing a total lack of backbone and a disgusting level of self-interest, she did nothing to promote the civil rights of her fellow lesbians, and is going to make a tidy sum writing a memoir. Shame on you, Mary the lesbian. May your book get remaindered faster than Ben Affleck can say Gigli. (By Scott Rose)