As the reporting on the operation against Osama bin Laden unfolds, a good bit has been made of the poker face aspect of President Obama artfully delivering one liners at the White House Correspondents ...

Wow, I had no idea what kind of nerve I was striking when I wrote a post last week on taming your inner smart aleck . Lots of leader readers left fantastic mea culpa comments that shared stories of ...

“Adam Ruins Everything” blends two classic genres: Educational TV (in which wise people like kindly Mr. Wizard or good-natured Bill Nye explain the world) and Smart Aleck TV (in which brash ...

At least one smart-aleck kid got put in his place this week, for which we can all give praise. But why should the case of one teenage showoff wind up going all the way to the United States Supreme ...

PONTIAC — If you listen to Adam Selzer’s stories long enough, you will notice a familiar pattern. “Most of them have something to do with a corpse or somebody’s grave being dug up,” said the Chicago ...

"I don't think I can be a very good son right now." In “Quitters,” young Clark (Ben Konigsberg) is a smart-aleck San Francisco teen who thinks he can outsmart the entire world, but his home life is a ...

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson promised golf fans plenty of trash talk ahead of last year's "The Match" in Las Vegas. Turns out, Tiger's best jab—or, at least, best-timed one—came during their famed ...

Do you think your kid is just so smart? Don't you just love it when you have company over and you get to show off your chid's smarts? "She can say all the state capitals!" you shout, over your guests' ...