Optional buys include tickets to the highest profile parties, many with nationally or world famous musical acts, events that are very hard to get tickets to otherwise, including the Playboy, Rolling Stone, ESPN NEXT and Maxim parties held on Friday and Saturday nights before each Super Bowl.
It is hard to imagine that McChrystal's decision to open his doors to Rolling Stone was a calculated move to blow the lid off of the mirage of strategic competence surrounding the "good war" in Afghanistan.