Outside the Beltway

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will likely be this era’s version of the Betamax case.

On screen body objectification is now equal opportunity.

A step up from The Colbert Report.

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

One of the perils of the Internet age is that companies constantly go belly up, leaving their customers in a lurch

Thanks to a Federal District Court Judge, most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.

In which we ponder the great questions of the day………

Rand Paul used word-for-word excerpts from Wikipedia in two speeches in Virginia.

Until this weekend, Mario Cuomo had refused to watch The Godfather. He still isn’t being very fair to it.

It’s now clear that, absent an unlikely miracle, there will be a government shutdown.

Convicted felon Bradley Manning has announced that she’d like to spend her confinement as Chelsea Manning.

One of the iconic speeches in American history is copyrighted.

Author Elmore Leonard has died at the age of 87.

The broadcast networks want to operate under the same FCC guidelines as the cable networks. And they should.

Films from the House of Spiderman have grossed more than those from the House of Superman. But that’s mostly because of ticket price increases.

Despite a sluggish economy, Americans are flocking to theme parks and spending big bucks to stand in line.

The government is changing the way it calculates Gross Domestic Product.

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

What is the appropriate response to someone who’s acting like a jerk?

Critics are assailing Disney for turning “Brave” protagonist Merida into just another princess.

The soft underbelly of the post-ownership society.

Today is the 75th anniversary of Superman.

A mix of media and abortion politics.

Apparently, today’s youth no longer know how to have good sex on account of they’re having too much sex.

Ralph Macchio is 51, the same age as Pat Morita was when “The Karate Kid” hit theaters in 1984.

An excellent essay by Adam Sternbergh “On the Enduring Appeal of ‘Die Hard.'”

Issue #700 marks the final issue of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker’s run as that character. For now.

Almost a decade ago, Roger Ebert wondered if making mass murderers famous doesn’t provide a perverse incentive.