Our Vice President-elect spent a recent evening stuffing Christmas stockings for a charity, with his wife, because why not? It’s not like he has anything better to do! He looks forward to a wonderful first term playing Wii in the Cheney Dungeon and cutting ribbons at state fairs. In having no defined “portfolio” of busywork to attend to, Biden differs from other recent vice presidents. Dick Cheney’s portfolio, of course, included “Making war with everyone, quietly murdering deer, and colonizing Mars” whereas Al Gore had to streamline the government and Dan Quayle had to misspell common vegetables. MORE »

Matt Cooper gave a couple thousand of the million words he writes a day to this month’s Portfolio, the embarrassing Conde Nast “business” magazine, turning in a neat little profile of Mitt Romney. Here’s what we learned about America’s favorite shiny-haired Mormon: MORE »