Outside the Beltway

The Dos Equis guy is fundraising for Obama.

Shannon Eastin has become the first woman to officiate an NFL game, thanks to the lockout of the regular referees.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”

A rather egregious case of misplaced priorities in Texas.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

Chamake Mauriene reveals America’s secret to world domination in Pravda.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

An old woman with no painting skills was allowed to restore an old painting. Oddly, it didn’t turn out very well.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

A federal judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill and that therefore betting money on it is not gambling.

I was more amused than I should have been by the YahooNews headline “Obama Says George Clooney Friendship Born in Sudan, Not Hollywood.”

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott is dead, aged 68, after an apparent suicide.

How dominant were America’s women in the London Olympics? They’d have come in fourth place in the medal count in the US sent separate men’s and women’s teams.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Calvin Broadus is dropping the “Snoop Dog” moniker and rap for “Snoop Lion” and reggae.

Nick Delpopolo has been banned from the Olympics for testing positive for cannabis, which he claims came from unwittingly eating a marijuana-laced brownie.

Cover Girl model Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing match.

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Once again, we learn that hosting the Olympics doesn’t carry nearly the economic benefit the IOC wants host cities to believe it does.

Marco Rubio wants to prevent these young women, and other Olympic medal winners, from paying taxes. It’s a dumb idea.

Nate Jones asks, “What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball?”