Outside the Beltway

Alex Karras has died after a long illness. He was 77.

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

Some of the NFL’s heftier players do not appreciate the new form-fitting jerseys introduced this season.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

So, it’s been a quarter of a century since “Star Trek: The Next Generation” made its debut. As if I didn’t feel old already.

A Pirate Party leader has been policing illegal downloads of her copyrighted book.

Michael Lewis has a long feature in Vanity Fair titled “Obama’s Way,” based on six months with the president.

The Dos Equis guy is fundraising for Obama.

Shannon Eastin has become the first woman to officiate an NFL game, thanks to the lockout of the regular referees.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”

A rather egregious case of misplaced priorities in Texas.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

Chamake Mauriene reveals America’s secret to world domination in Pravda.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

An old woman with no painting skills was allowed to restore an old painting. Oddly, it didn’t turn out very well.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

A federal judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill and that therefore betting money on it is not gambling.

I was more amused than I should have been by the YahooNews headline “Obama Says George Clooney Friendship Born in Sudan, Not Hollywood.”

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott is dead, aged 68, after an apparent suicide.

How dominant were America’s women in the London Olympics? They’d have come in fourth place in the medal count in the US sent separate men’s and women’s teams.