Photo by AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais U.S. President Barack Obama has been enjoying a surge of popularity after passing health care reform, finalizing a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia, and maintaining a 55% brackets approval rating. But that good will evaporated for some D.C. residents today when President Obama, taking the mound to throw out the first pitch to mark Opening Day, donned a White Sox cap. Isn’t it enough that Phillies fans have…

Robert Parsons, Rick Foucheux and Sarah Zimmerman in “The Rivalry.” Photo by T.Charles-Erickson. It was a classic case of the lanky, brainy, agitating underdog versus the stouter, more experienced, more appeasement-minded line-tower. But must we reopen O’Brien v. Leno while the wounds are still fresh? Then let us confab instead, my fellow Americans, about The Rivalry, Ford’s Theatre’s often-clunky, still-stirring remount of radio great Norman Corwin’s 1958 dramatization of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of a…