Outside the Beltway

IBM’s Watson computer crushed human competitors on Jeopardy. What does it mean?

Michael Medved wishes that conservatives would stop implying that the President of the United States wants to destroy the United States.

I simply do not know enough expletives to adequately express how truly horrible this film was.

Why does Hermione Granger go to the library instead of just Googling it?

Actor Alec Baldwin is among hundreds being targeted by New York City for tax evasion. Is it reasonable to have to prove where you live?

Dr. Dre is arguing that police officers have no right to privacy.

Andy McNab writes books for people who like video games.

Christopher Hitchens explains how to make tea.

Shania Twain has married Frederic Thiebaud, former husband of Marie-Anne Thiebaud, the woman Twain’s ex-husband Mutt Lange had an affair with.

Here’s the trailer for Marvel Studios’ “Thor.”

Given that Batman has quasi-official sanction from the Gotham Police, aren’t his tactics illegal?

Aaron Sorkin gets “happy” when hunters accidentally kill one another.

SNL’s Julian Assange spoof isn’t their best work but it’s mildly amusing

The editors of the Washington Post want you to know that “Fair Game,” the new movie about the Valerie Plame affair, is “Hollywood myth making.” Propaganda and lies is more like it.

Shocking Headline Of The Day: “Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas.”

“Ugly Betty” actor Michael Brea killed his mother with a samurai sword while screaming Bible passages.

Because no one should live in a world where Han didn’t shoot first.

The Atlantic’s Dave Thier laments that, “The Beatles on iTunes Means Your Kids May Never Hear ‘Her Majesty’

A new survey shows that political ideology leads to different television viewing habits. This shouldn’t be surprising.

His career seemingly over after being trounced in an independent bid for the Senate, Florida Governor Charlie Crist is turning his attention to the pressing matter of three-decade-old conviction of a long dead pop singer.

An imaginary letter from Mick Jagger to “the journalist Bill Wyman” in reference to Keith Richards’ new autobiography has been making the rounds. Oddly, everyone seems to think Jagger actually wrote the piece.

Harvard’s Jack Hamilton extols “Robert Plant’s Second Act” for the Atlantic. In so doing, he gives us an interesting look at the more important First Act.

Did President Obama degrade his office by appearing on “The Daily Show”? Or is that notion a relic of a bygone era?

Amazon is making the complete “I Love Lucy” television series — a whopping 5394 minutes of entertainment on 34 discs — available for one day only at $84.99.

Video of President Obama on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart.

Washington City Paper editor Michael Schaffer has put out a satiric memo mocking the policies NPR and others have issued to reporters regarding this weekend’s Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rallies

Paul, World Cup ‘psychic’ octopus, dies in Germany.

If you’re like me, you think of William Shakespeare’s plays as being rendered in an archaic but decidedly upper crust British English. It turns out that this is an artifact of modern theater.

Merle Haggard is not gay. But he’s been retroactively gay married — twice! — for want of a comma.