Well, here's a description of the inside of the Obama plane you don't come across everyday:

It felt like the Lord of the Flies in there...The people who have been there for a long time have all of their little decorations and knickknacks all over the back of the plane. Everyone's a little grumpy and territorial, and there's this sense of people thrown together who have been with each other way too long. I got the sense that I was dropping in on a hostage-captor situation.

Nope, not hostages per se, just the state of Obama's press corps as The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza discovered it upon his return after a few months away. Over at The New Republic journalists are describing the peculiar aspects of the sort of "Stockholm Syndrome" that has developed in the press corp during the longest campaign season in history. For example, CNN's Candy Crowley sets three alarms each night and writes the following down before she goes to bed: "What city is she in? What time zone? What time does she have to be out of the hotel room the next morning? What day is it?" Says the NYT Jeff Zeleny, "Now that the campaign is winding down, they're all taking pictures of one another, and you get the sense of summer camp coming to an end." And some people, like Politico's Ben Smith don't want the madness to end: "It's so built into my system, that it's going to be hard to stop...it's pathological, really." Six more days!