And that’s why diet books are usually best-sellers. The things you do to your body over its first 25 years, it will repay to you in spades over the next 50. You’re so welcome.

Pamela Gellar, unknown to Grover Norquist? Hmm…

The executive branch (the iceberg of which The White House embodies but the tip) in the form in which it’s taken root in the capitol is significant in so many ways that any enterprising reporter with good institutional support can find a story within its sprawl and bring it to The White House to be put under the national microscope. Those reporters who rarely leave the Briefing Room are to be blamed for the lack of lustre of this beat.