Outside the Beltway

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Status report on the damage in Japan.

Philippa Thomas has a fascinating take on how she broke the news of (now former) State Department P.J. Crowley’s condemnation of the Obama administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning.

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

If the Republicans need their own Bill Clinton, how about Mark Sanford?

Can the massive destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns stimulate the economy?

It’s springtime in Washington, when the buds start to grow on the Japanese Cherry trees, and political hacks come out of their holes to criticize the President for golfing.

This video “Teachers Unions Explained” isn’t particularly fair but it’s nonetheless amusing.

Fewer Americans are watching cable news networks, and that’s not surprising.

79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. 18% are undecided.

Mitch Daniels says that the GOP needs to get beyond its obsession with social issues if it’s going to survive. He’s right.

Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.

A new biography of Adolf Hitler analyzes new documents about his World War I service and “concludes that he was not the hero he was later made out to be and that his radicalization shouldn’t necessarily be attributed to his wartime experiences.”

Overnight, we celebrate the biannual ritual of resetting all our clocks so as to save daylight. Oddly, the amount of daylight continues to heed its own rhythms.

A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.

Facebook limits accounts to those who say that they are at least 13 years old. Shockingly, some kids lie to get on the popular social network.

No matter how the owners and players resolve their squabble, the fans are likely to get screwed.

It’s understandable that the President feels defensive about gas prices, but that’s no excuse for trying to sell the public a bill of goods.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

A Welcome to Wisconsin sign with another sign saying “A Division of Koch Industries” is going around Twitter.

The damage in Japan from today’s quake is dramatic and heartbreaking.

An offhand comment in my post “Obama Killed Cap’n Crunch” sparked inquiries about the fate of the General Mills line of cereals featuring monster characters.

Job interviews, resumes, and all the rest are imperfect ways of matching candidates with employment openings.

Recent events in Wiscosin seem to undercut the hypothesis that public sector unions have undue political influence.

The CNN Effect has given away to Twitter Standard Time.