Outside the Beltway

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George Will’s view of denim is about forty years out of date.