Why is it still worth pursuing the John Edwards scandal? Slate's Mickey Kaus offers up a pretty comprehensive explanation, to which we will add one more point: It's summer! You see anything else going on?

Of course, the gossip mill continues to churn even during these dog days of August, because we keep hearing the following rumor: Cheri Young, the wife of Edwards' good pal and former aide Andrew Young, is not so pleased that her husband stepped up to the plate and claimed responsibility for fathering Rielle Hunter's love child. (Or at least kind of claimed responsibility: His name isn't on the birth certificate.) And she'd been expressing her displeasure in the most cliche manner possible: by venting about the whole situation to her hairdresser.

(We know, the disgruntled wife blows off steam at the local salon is a trope right out of a Lifetime movie, but we've heard the rumor from three different people.)

With a little bit of legwork, we established that Young gets her hair done at Mina's in Chapel Hill. We tried repeatedly to get Young's stylist on the phone, but were told that she wasn't authorized to speak to the press, and that we'd have to go through the owner, Louann. Louann seemed quite amused when we briefly explained why we wanted to talk to the stylist four days ago (all we said was that Cheri Young had been in the news, and that we wanted to talk to her for a few minutes); she said that she'd ask the stylist if she felt comfortable talking and get back to us, but that it didn't seem like it would be a problem.

When she got back to us today, however, her tone was a little different: "She knows nothing, they've never had a conversation about that," she said politely but firmly. When we asked what "that" referred to, Louann said, "That's all I will really say about this."

And there you have it: definitive proof of the affair! Get to it, mainstream media!