Outside the Beltway

Dwayne Jarrett’s career with the Carolina Panthers: 1 touchdown, 2 DUIs.

Boston University and Northeastern have found that there is life after football. Shouldn’t most schools follow their lead?

Stephen J. Cannel, the man behind “The Rockford Files” and “The A-Team,” had died at 69.

It’s worth reminding ourselves, in a country where so many are trying to figure out the best way to keep excess fat off our bodies, how recently abject poverty was widespread here

Western athletes who’ve complained about the conditions at the Commonwealth Games are coming in for a firestorm of criticism.

They might not be able to fix the economy or the healthcare system or agree on an efficient tax policy but Congress has managed to reach accord on one of the most serious problems facing America: loud television commercials.

Business is booming for box sets of 1960s acts remastered into the original mono.

An amusing parody of the typical press report on a new scientific finding.

Just because somebody pay you money don’t mean they’ll make you do whatever they want or whatever.

A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.

Apparently, Katy Perry’s dress was deemed too revealing for public television.

Blockbuster is trying to reorganize itself, but it’s probably too late.

According to a poll released Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of U.S. citizens now believe Barack Obama is a cactus, the most Americans to identify the president as a water- retaining desert plant since he took office.

The UFCW of Nevada pays temporary workers minimum wage to demand fair treatment and wages from Wal-Mart.

Jon Stewart has made the transition into the post-Bush era much more effectively than his protege, Stephen Colbert.

The super rich have a lot larger share of total income than they did a generation ago. Are they taking it from the rest of us?

Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.

It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot.

A renowned sports economist argues that black quarterbacks are treated differently than their white counterparts.

Beloved comedian and character actor Andy Griffith’s popularity in his home state has plummeted since making commercials endorsing ObamaCare and some Democratic candidates.

Has the digitization of entertainment — DVRs, iPods, iPods, digital cameras, Netflix, and so forth — transformed it from fun into work?

What’s the deal with iTunes?

A new insurance industry survey confirms what anyone who’s spent an afternoon driving in metropolitan Washington, D.C. should already know in their heart.

A shorter preseason and more meaningful games may come to fruition as soon as 2012.

From the Onion News Network: “TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults”

Has MAD MEN jumped the shark? Or is it getting better?

Roger Clemens is probably regretting today the decision to testify before a Congressional committee about steroids back in 2008.

Christopher Walken does a dramatic reading of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” recycles a Steve Allen bit from before I was born. But it’s still hilarious.