Just to lighten things up a bit, here are a couple well written fun articles.

The first is from Slate and suggests a good reason or two to lighten up on Obama’s smoking habit. It also does a good job of giving props to Barbara Walters and Tom Brokaw for their ace reporting on the subject. 

The second is Dan Henninger in the Wall Street Journal reporting on the progress of the program to bail out Christmas. The only fault in the article is that he didn’t come up with an acronym for the program.

Enjoy.