Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that Washington lawyer and former deputy attorney general Eric Holder, who also co-led Obama’s vice presidential selection process, has flushed a Koran down the toilet. No! (Maybe?) But it’s really that Holder will serve as Obama’s attorney general. The first black attorney general ever, and first minority attorney general since the known Mexican Alberto Gonzales! The first attorney general generally speaking since Michael Mukasey! MORE »

The Scooter Libby trial might get interesting next week. Michael Isikoff just posted a short-yet-confusing thing on MSNBC.com that attempts to explain this latest twist. Our interpretation: MORE »

Jack Shafer, on newsbooks: MORE »

• Heard on the Hill: HoH finds three monkeys Indian people who support George Allen… A stunt plane flown by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) “spun out of control” last week… Denny Hastert gave out the wrong number for his live nude Page abuse-reporting hotline. [Roll Call]
• Reliable Source: Last Saturday: two big gay parties. No one wanted to talk about Mark Foley for some reason… Lloyd Grove’s next job will be “something media-ish.” [WP]
• Yeas and Nays: Nathan’s owner Carol Joynt gets Michael Isikoff and David Corn drunk, goads them into talking trash about Bob Woodward. [Examiner]

So, what does a Newsweek White House correspondent do with their time when not traveling the world breaking news? Apparently, downtime involves a lot of eating. MORE »

Patrick Fitzgerald is right: Baseball metaphors are all the rage. They are just usually much, much shorter than his. By our count, Fitzgerald’s “explanation” of why his leak investigation did not result in leak charges lasted about as long as the investigation and left us feeling more confused. Karl threw a fastball that hit Valerie Plame but Joe Wilson is umpire and Patrick Fitzgerald is the sand and the first baseman has WMDs… Isn’t the baseball metaphor most relevant to Scooter Libbey right now the one about “pitching” and “catching”? MORE »