The journalistic mind

Few media behaviors are more pitiful than the intense fixation over the "Veepstakes": a word that is at once nauseatingly vapid and yet incomparably valuable as a symbol of our nation's pointless, juvenile political media. Time's Mark Halperin, needless to say, has a columntoday all about the "Veepstakes," which begins by his proud announcement that he's "covered all of these since 1992." Tapping into his deep well of Veepstakes wisdom, he shares 10 "fundamentals" about this process (keep you...