Larry King’s a crazy lady now! Watch “her” guests, Ron Paul and the super-crazy Baldwin brother, get shouty about, um, Michael Phelps, teevee’s “The Aquaman,” because Phelps sat poolside with teevee’s Matt Lauer one time to talk about “celebrating” (getting high). Did you know Lauer was nearly killed by a deer today? [YouTube]

• WHY MICHAEL PHELPS IS THE WORST PERSON EVER: Did you hear about this Phelps character, an elite swimmer who was photographed smoking the evil gateway drug marijuana? “It doesn’t matter that ‘everybody else is doing it,’ because my bet is that everybody else smoking pot at that student party at the University of South Carolina doesn’t have endorsement deals worth $100 million. They haven’t courted the concept of being a role model and selling cellphones and cereal to mothers and grandmothers and little children.” Next we will find out that Michael Phelps didn’t pay his taxes, and then his political career is OVER. [Washington Post]

DIRT CROSS COLLAPSE: “The White House’s response to the Russia/Georgia war gets a smirking ‘whatever’ from Moscow. Who are we to be telling anyone not to invade little countries? We’ve been doing it with great fanfare and steady failure since Vietnam, and we’re bogged down in so many doomed occupations today that Robot Troops are the only hope. Maybe we can buy some from Japan, on credit. Or that famous swimmer Michael Phelps can save the country by, uh, swimming very fast to various problem zones, like Aquaman.” [Political Machine]