In today's New York Times, Obama family biographer Jodi Kantor writes about Obama's perfectionism and intense competitive spirit. While it's comforting to have a commander-in-chief so concerned with success, it's possible Obama takes it a little too far at times. Here are some of the more interesting factoids from Kantor's article.

Sure, Clint Eastwood might have made headlines by having a one-sided debate with Invisible Obama, but the President bears him no ill will.

Here is President Obama made out of sand.

President Barack Obama did a Reddit "AMA" (Ask Me Anything) this week, answering ten questions over about 30 minutes and causing the site to crash repeatedly. But it wouldn't be a real Reddit experience without mob paranoia — and, right on cue, a bunch of libertarian Reddit detectives have assembled a case that the White House "planted" one of the few questions the president answered. An unconvincing case, to say the least.

When will Obama's War on Pizza end? Papa John himself has revealed that Obamacare will force him to raise pizza prices by some 14 cents — and now noted pizza expert Herman "Godfather" Cain has weighed in with a pizza prediction in an interview with Time magazine:

2016: Obama's America, a conservative documentary based on a book by scholarly turtle Dinesh D'Souza, just had a breakout weekend, grabbing eighth place in the box office totals despite being on about a third as many theaters as its competition. You — a French-speaking polyamorous cosmopolitan grad-student liberal-type — have probably never seen it. What is it about, then? Judging from the trailer, which comes complete with a terrific spy-movie techno-"Middle Eastern music" soundtrack, here are some of its themes:

The Expendables 2 dominated the box office again this weekend, but the movie everyone's talking about is 2016: Obama's America, the little anti-Obama documentary that could.

The former Republican governor of Florida (and John Slattery lookalike) Charlie Crist has endorsed Barack Obama.

While you were busy mourning Neil Armstrong, Fox News analyst Monica Crowley was looking for a way to politicize his death.

Here's Mitt Romney in Michigan, talking to a group of voters:

The Obama campaign is rolling out a new ad starring former President Bill Clinton.

It's November 7th, 2012, and a re-elected Barack Obama has just handed over the sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations, sparking a civil war.

Barack Obama has a four-point lead over Mitt Romney, but that's not nearly as dramatic as Obama's lead among African American voters — 94 percent to 0 percent.

Remember when Paul Ryan said he'd never asked for stimulus money even though he had? The Republican vice presidential candidate is now facing more claims of stimulus-related hypocrisy, with newly released footage showing he advocated a stimulus when George W. Bush proposed it in the early 2000s.

The American government wants to burn Julian Assange at the stake.

Who is the biggest bro in the presidential race? It's probably the most important question that we'll answer in this election cycle. Barack Obama drinks a lot of beer ("Consumer research," The Washington Post writes, "shows that beer is most popular with the very voters that Obama and Romney are fighting over: middle-America independents.") — but Mitt Romney has an M.B.A. Paul Ryan ("the frattiest veep candidate in American history") loves Rage Against the Machine — but Joe Biden went to the University of Delaware. So who can call himself the Bro Candidate?

While speaking with NASA's Mars rover team this morning, President Obama set aside some time to congratulate flight director Bobak "Mohawk Guy" Ferdowsi in particular on his newfound Internet fame — and compliment him on his fine-looking do.

Leave it to the internet to spoil Mitt Romney's special day — late last night, NBC was reporting that Romney would pick Rep. Paul Ryan as his VP, and the internet all but confirmed.

Harry Reid's accusation that Mitt Romney is hiding something by not releasing his tax returns — specifically not paying taxes for 10 years — isn't going away any time soon.

So, okay. This is where we are, as a nation. On Monday, Barack Obama addressed a crowd in Stamford, Connecticut and described Mitt Romney's tax plan as "Robin Hood in reverse. It's Romney Hood." Yesterday, Romney told a Fox News reporter that Obama's terms are "Obamaloney." Everyone in America now has free rein to address both candidates as "Beavis."