As ludicrous nontroversies go, then, I suppose I'll take a fashion-related one over one where treating the "other side" as credible involves promoting falsehoods that muddy the public's understanding of serious, complicated issues like healthcare reform.

Unfortunately a number of gotcha moments only became controversial when the media, like blood-deprived leeches, clung to the nontroversy and spun it through its continuous loop of 24-hours news, which only contains an estimated 30 minutes of new news according to a recent Political Fallout study.

It's not a controversy; it's a nontroversy.

The pills Mark McGwire pops to increase the pop in his bat are over-the-counter substances that are not banned by Major League Baseball.

He is not, repeat, not cheating.