In the end, if we can't laugh, then what's a crisis for?

If the crisis we faced was the fiscal cliff, the legislation Congress finally agreed to must be the bungee cord. It keeps the economy from hitting the bottom but leaves it going up and down, up and down ....

With the concussion and blood clot crises apparently behind her, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to return to work this week.

But the NFL knows a lot more about concussions than the State Department, so I think she should get final clearance from one more authority:

Washington's team doctor.