Frank Rich discusses the news coverage of the White House Correspondents Dinner last week, which was apparently more important than, say, a possible terrorist attack in Times Square. I have a half-written post here I'll try to finish one of these days. It's about how I think all presidents, Obama included, waste a lot of time in cosmetic, ceremonial nonsense when they probably oughta be solving real problems. I wish Obama had cancelled on the dinner, citing more pressing matters. Of course, I also wish our press was mature enough that they wouldn't have savaged him for doing that.