Couple o' Clippings
All About the O: Slate's Seth Stevenson explains that bizarre Overstock.com ad.
Spiffy Badges: Donald Sensing blogs on the changing prestige and meaning of the Combat Infantry Badge and (notes reader George Jong in an email to me) makes a style point toward the end: "I have always had the suspicion that the CIB is so highly coveted because it is a very attractive, handsome badge and stands out on the class A uniform. I bet that if the Army took the wreath away from the CIB and gave it to the EIB, the prestige pecking order would change, too."