How bad does it have to get before it gets better? First we have the New York Times disgusting and pointless front page article on the status of the Clin-tons' marriage. Now we have the WaPo publishes a pointless, stupid, and poorly written article on wing-men. Now really.

He's like the fighter pilot flying beside and slightly behind the lead pilot in a hostile environment -- thus the term.
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"A mutual back-and-forth man love" is how Tony Moniello describes wingman camaraderie. Moniello, 22, and two buddies, Jay Jentz, 22, and Philipp Waclawiczek, 21, have been wingmanning for each other from the first week of freshman year at GW four years ago.
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Jentz picks up: "Sometimes you're a lawyer. You may only have taken one law class, but what the heck? It adds flavor, gets people excited."

Moniello says his hometown wingman -- good wingman relationships never die -- is as adept as they come. "If I go to the bathroom, he'll make me look like Jesus. . . . The girl I'm after will say something like 'I hear he's a player' and he'll convince her I'm really in love with her."
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Whether or not he's interested in the sidekick, he has to act like he is and, if she's really unattractive to him, be willing to, as these guys say, "fall on the grenade."

Granted, WaPo at least had the sense to put this in the Style section as opposed to the front page, but really, what is the point of this article? Is the wisdom of horny young men now worthy of being published in a national newspaper? This kind of tripe should be published in bad men's magazines, not the freaking WaPo.