Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

As national security reporter and friend-to-the-‘ist Spencer Ackerman observed yesterday: “love the fact that it’s Hannukah, the first-ever war for oil.” Heh. The Attackerman wasn’t the only one to go there: The Huffington Post writes up five lessons that Barack Obama should take away from the story of Judah the Maccabee, just in time for the holidays. But only philliefan99 captured the visual. Truly, “Judah the Hammer” sounds like an ill-conceived name for an imperial campaign in the Middle East — but don’t worry. Obama hasn’t launched an Antiochan war on Hannukah. Despite whatever Bill Kristol would have you believe.