Outside the Beltway

The legendary comedian is gone at 94.

The war cabinet is gone. He now owns the war completely.

The game is the game.

The show about nothing has a big legacy.

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

Continuing and expanding on thoughts from the previous post.

“The Closer” delivers more of what people love and hate about the GOAT.

DC’s new area code is causing an identity crisis.

Another early COVID myth has been shattered.

A great character actor is gone.

It’s Election Day in Canada and the outcome is far from certain.

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has hit the bottom of the barrel.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

Iconic Broadway legend Neil Simon, who was responsible for hits such as “The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

Donald Trump’s speech yesterday at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition was as bizarre as anything else we’ve seen from him.

We’ve got one foot in two very different technological worlds.

The first episode of “Seinfeld” aired 25 years ago yesterday.

The GOP’s shutdown was about as pointless as a show about waiting for a table in a Chinese restaurant.

Jokes aren’t funny if you have to explain them. Explaining how the joke got written can be marginally funny.

When Jerry Seinfeld writes a letter to the editor, the editor publishes the letter. Really.

So, what’s up with Donald Trump’s bizarre hairdo? He insists it’s not a comb-over.

A New York judge has sided with comedian Jerry Seinfeld in a bizarre lawsuit by a crazy woman who writes cookbooks.

Some members of Congress sleep in their offices in lieu of renting residences in DC. Fiscally responsible or kinda odd?

Charles Murray argues that the Tea Party is right to complain about out-of-touch elites.

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

A Princeton economist has devised a formula for a classic sitcom paradox.

The most shocking news about Larry King’s retirement announcement was the realization that he was still on the air.

George Will’s view of denim is about forty years out of date.