Swimsuit Issues

Barak Obama emerges from the surf in ample black swim shorts in this week's People.

He has been visiting family in Hawaii.

I have already coined a slogan for him: go for barak

But I am worried about his upper-body strength. Can he do the heavy lifting?

I don't know about Hillary's abs, but his could use some work.

How generous the resort season is to editors of celebritymags.

Over here in literature, we aren't blessed with seasonality, but I do want to mention that the cover of the Spring issue, which we picked yesterday, will strike you, when it appears in late March, as pegged to a certain religious holiday.