Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter, which is about to crack this Strait of Hormuz thing any day now. Once again, the “haters” spent all week talking about the biggest war in the Middle East in decades and how it’s destabilizing countries everywhere. As if there’s not anything more important, such as a beautiful new ballroom under construction in Washington, to discuss. Elsewhere, we look at a delightfully spicy confirmation hearing this week,...