President Obama says the pie at the White House is “the best pie I have ever tasted, and that has caused big problems with Michelle and I.” (Note to lefty grammarians and literary critics: can we assume you will be parsing this president's errors with the same strict and offended attention with which you reviewed the Bush prose?) Also--and who can blame him?--he finds it “quite irritating” when his aides “constantly want to powder my nose and forehead” before interviews.

It was a slow news day.