Sarah Palin has commissioned a film to bolster her reputation. This is very intriguing on a number of levels.

The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.

The selection process for the Joint Chiefs has been most odd.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.
It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.

Barack Obama

24 May 2008

It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him. Also, though, he may have had a stroke.

Republicans tired of the current slate of presidential candidates can rest easy: Thaddeus McCotter may offer up his services.

Save water: Grow a beard.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

Amy Myers, the sophomore who challenged Michele Bachmann to a debate on the Constitution, has been the target of vile comments on the Internet.

“Our records indicate that your annual income for the 2011 taxable year was $2,170,000,000,000. You have requested a credit limit of $17,000,000,000,000. These figures exceed the American Public’s guidelines for credit issuance”

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

The Rapture has no biblical foundation and was made up by a 15-year-old girl in 1830.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

Jon Huntsman made his first stop in New Hampshire as he explores a presidential bid. So far, so good.

Willie Nelson is torn between Gary Johnson and Dennis Kucinich.

A loud woman who was yapping loudly for hours on an AmTrak quiet car has been arrested after getting belligerent.

Bowing to the inevitable, Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned overnight as head of the IMF amidst high-level calls for his ouster in wake of a rape scandal.

Has technology robbed us of more than it’s given in return?

Stein’s elitism actually obscured a very sound point hinted at in the title: “Presumed Innocent, Anyone?”

Mike Wirth, in conjunction with Suzanne Cooper-Guasco, contributes this elaborate flowchart of the American legislative process titled “How Our Laws Are Made.”

All signs are that Michele Bachmann is running for president. What impact will she have on the race?

Go The Fuck to Sleep, the children’s book aimed at parents, has become an Internet sensation and reached #1 on Amazon well before its release owing to a leaked copy.

Video calling is becoming widely available. Will it become as common as talking on the phone?

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were

With a Federal ban on sales of incandescent light bulbs fast approaching, manufacturers are still scrambling to invent suitable substitutes.

General Donn Starry and the Army of the 1970s.

Requiring people with ethical conflicts to disclose them leads to more bad behavior, not less, a new study finds.

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

Are we safer in high population areas?

Academic publishers want to end the Fair Use of scholarly journal articles in the classroom.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.

You know those creepy running shoes that look like fluorescent feet? They’re going mainstream.

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

Amanda Marcotte argues that society secretly sympathizes with rapists.

If former President George W. Bush has any bitterness that Osama bin Laden was finally killed under his successor, he’s not showing it.

Is lunch necessary? It’s not really where the conversation is.

Superman doesn’t hate America after all!

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

Is the war in Libya illegal?

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.