So, what’s up with Donald Trump’s bizarre hairdo? He insists it’s not a comb-over.

Matt Eckel’s takeaway from my Atlantic piece on How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology is that we need a peer competitor.

Not surprisingly, having ordered a successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden is being highlighted on President Obama’s re-election tour.

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)

The Washington Wizards have gone back to the future with new uniforms that look remarkably like the old Washington Bullets unis.

Hockey star Sean Avery’s recent statements supporting gay marriage has drawn fire from an unlikely source: His agent.

Christopher Hitchens is losing his voice. He misses it.

Babies “R” Us sells defective, dangerous products. Do not shop there.

The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

David Brooks declares Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, and Jon Huntsman the only serious candidates for the Republican nomination.

A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

George Will reflects on turning 70.

Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”

In a move sure to satisfy Deathers as much as a contemporaneous newspaper story satisfied Birthers, al Qaeda has released a statement confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

Joe Biden: During several months of planning for the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, ” as many as 16 members of Congress that were briefed on it, not a single solitary thing leaked.”

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

Gary Weddle, a schoolteacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, has cut his beard after waiting almost ten years for Osama bin Laden to be killed.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

Rush Limbaugh heaps praise on President Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

I don’t feel the jubilation that came with Saddam Hussein’s capture in December 2003. Sadly, I know better this time.

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg is catching some flak for complaining that he’s “struggling like everyone else” despite a net worth in the millions.

Most good government jobs require a college degree–but they don’t care much whether it’s a real one.

Mashup videos: Iron Maiden and The Monkees (“The Trooper Believer”) and Pink Floyd and Bee Gees (“Stayin’ Alive in the Wall”)

A comedian-turned-Senator makes some strong points about how America goes to war.

Britain’s Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, giving her a ring of Welsh gold.

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

At least 128 are dead, with the toll expected to rise, in the flurry of tornadoes that hit Alabama yesterday.

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Surprising no one, President Obama’s release of his long-form birth certificate has satisfied none of the Birthers.

Singing the 1974 Carl Douglas classic “Kung Fu Fighting” can get you arrested in England.

President Obama’s long-form birth certificate is being released, the White House announced today.

Why are many of the top Republicans are sitting out the race despite a seemingly vulnerable incumbent?

CIA director Panetta to take over Pentagon; Petraeus to be nominated for CIA

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.

So, some bright people are surprised at new polling showing that a significant minority of Southerners have not enthusiastically embraced their ancestors’ loss in the Civil War.