President Obama appears sans shirt on the cover of the May issue of The Washingtonian magazine. The magazine’s rationale for using the picture? “Our New Neighbor is Hot.” [beefcake] We’re sort of pissed the Washingtonian mag wasn’t around during the days of William Howard Taft .

Famously recomended: Garrett Graff recently penned “The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House.”  This book is a must read that explores the political, economic and technological changes that Graff believes will make this years race for the White House a campaign of “new age.”  [click …