Outside the Beltway

Long-time Oakland Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis has died.

Hank Williams Jr. has offered an apology for calling the Obama administration “the enemy” and comparing the president to Hitler:

Country music legend Hank Williams, Jr. is not a fan of the current administration.

Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.

Beginning with “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” a series of tweets with the #CongressHostage hashtag have been decidedly unfunny.

Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.

While most of the Nike “pro combat” uniforms that college teams have worn over the last few years have been garish one-offs never seen again after their debut game, their revamp of the Navy unies is actually an upgrade

Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?

The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.

George Lucas is once again “enhancing” his epic films for the upcoming Blu-Ray release.

How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?

Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop.

When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.

Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.

Every episode of every live action Star Trek series is now free for streaming from Amazon.

Arturo Trejo conducts a hard-hitting interview with his son, Jose Luis

The treasurer behind “Rick Parry with an ‘A’ for America” has left to work with Rick Perry

The Ames Straw Poll is like the first scrimmage of NFL training camp.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Rebecca J. Rosen explains why “Ridiculously Long CVS Receipts Will Remain Ridiculously Long.” And Mitch Hedberg ponders why they give you a receipt for a donut.

Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Kurt Vonnegut on teaching a computer to write a story.

Fascinating exchange from the late 1970s.

If you don’t eat your peas you’ll grow up to be a Congressman!

A mistrial has been ruled in the Roger Clemens perjury trial and the judge may rule that a retrial would constitute double jeopardy.

Jeter’s 3,000 hits now “official.”