Outside the Beltway

According to a poll released Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of U.S. citizens now believe Barack Obama is a cactus, the most Americans to identify the president as a water- retaining desert plant since he took office.

The UFCW of Nevada pays temporary workers minimum wage to demand fair treatment and wages from Wal-Mart.

Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.

It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot.

A new insurance industry survey confirms what anyone who’s spent an afternoon driving in metropolitan Washington, D.C. should already know in their heart.

From the Onion News Network: “TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults”

Christopher Walken does a dramatic reading of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” recycles a Steve Allen bit from before I was born. But it’s still hilarious.

The Daily Mash combines two topics that have taken up entirely too many pixels at OTB and elsewhere of late with their parody article “OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO BUILD LIBRARY NEXT TO SARAH PALIN.”

A helpful guide to the pleasures of navigating our nation’s capital by car, bike, or foot.

The Taliban have a new secret weapon: Monkey terrorist soldiers.

NASA engineers are already “close to testing” a solid rocket booster powered by combustible animal dung, and operated according to principles discovered by Ibn Al-Haytham, Islam’s best-known scientist, who died in 1039 AD.

General Petraeus is in charge in Afghanistan! What exactly does this change?

Christian Bleuer provides a 10-step solution for victory over the Taliban.