Good news! The tide of war is receding, as the President has announced. Just not very fast. Things are going so well in Afghanistan, according to the President, that a year from now we will only have twice as many troops stationed there as we did when he came into office two years ago. Quelle…

Mitt Romney tells a joke: “I saw a young man over there with the eggs benedict,” says Romney. “He had the eggs benedict with a hollandaise sauce and the eggs, there. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce and hubcaps. Because there’s no place like chrome…

Over at Slate, Fred Kaplan notes that “The White House debate over how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan next month is really a surrogate for a larger, more fractious debate over the wisdom and strategy of the war itself.” And Fred, being Fred, also notes that this is really really important and we ought…

If you read an article in Slate Magazine, which I often do, you’ll see a column next to it labeled “Recommended for You.” I’m hoping, a lot, that Slate just lists whatever articles some dude is willing to pay them to list there—that is, that this isn’t one of those hip net things where Slate…

Combative lardbutt Chris Christie, New Jersey’s teacher hatin’ governor, may have plunged his ample ass in some hot water by taking a government chopper to watch his son play baseball. Christie split during the fifth inning, apparently to meet with some big-shot Republicans from Iowa who want him to run for President. The New Jersey…