Outside the Beltway

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?”

The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, injecting a dull subject with a much-needed dose of color.

While women are more visible at the 2012 Olympics than any past games, there are still cries of “sexism.”

Michael Phelps today won his 18th and 19th Olympic medal, breaking the old record held by gymnast Larysa Latynina. Does this make him the greatest ever?

NBC’s Olympic coverage doesn’t necessarily recognize the realities of social networking and the 24 hour news cycle.

Why the hell is CNN—which purports to be a news organization—pretending that NBC is live casting the Olympics?

Why do we hold Nutella to a higher truth standard than our presidential candidates?

The athletes gathered at the London Olympics have sacrificed much of their lives training to excel at their sports. But most also have extraordinary genetic advantages.