Outside the Beltway

Actor Alec Baldwin may run for mayor of New York.

James Arness, best known as the iconic Marshal Dillon on Gunsmoke, has died at 88.

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has announced his retirement after 19 years as a pro. On Twitter.

President Obama has issued a Proclamation designating June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.”

Broadway actors are aiming a familiar lament at Hollywood stars: They’re taking our jobs!

Jim Tressel has resigned as head coach of the Ohio State football team.

This is a male latrine, there shouldn’t be any drawings of dicks.

Actor Jeff Conaway, best known for his role of Bobby Wheeler on “Taxi,” is dead after a drug overdose.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

Is Donald Trump back in the race? Not yet, but he hasn’t ruled it out.

“Our records indicate that your annual income for the 2011 taxable year was $2,170,000,000,000. You have requested a credit limit of $17,000,000,000,000. These figures exceed the American Public’s guidelines for credit issuance”

Willie Nelson is torn between Gary Johnson and Dennis Kucinich.

When one realizes that Trump is basically a brand, rather than anything else, his PR foray into politics makes more sense.

Go The Fuck to Sleep, the children’s book aimed at parents, has become an Internet sensation and reached #1 on Amazon well before its release owing to a leaked copy.

Superman doesn’t hate America after all!

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)

The Washington Wizards have gone back to the future with new uniforms that look remarkably like the old Washington Bullets unis.

Hockey star Sean Avery’s recent statements supporting gay marriage has drawn fire from an unlikely source: His agent.

The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have announced their separation after 25 years of marriage.

A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.

Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”