Outside the Beltway

It turns out, the NRA behind the game is not the National Rifle Association.

In news you’ve known for years, Jodie Foster has announced that she’s a lesbian.

Old Man’s war, a sci-fi novel about the distant future published in 2007, features Newsweek magazine, which went out of business in 2012.

Issue #700 marks the final issue of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker’s run as that character. For now.

A photograph of a New York cop putting boots on a homeless man went viral. The man remains bootless, however.

Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s funny brother, has some interesting thoughts on racism and free speech in an interview with Esquire.

The bromance between President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now become a love triangle with the addition of Bruce Springsteen.

George Lucas has sold the Star Wars franchise to Disney, which has announced a new Star Wars movie for 2015.

Days after “Friday Night Lights” author Buzz Bissinger endorsed Mitt Romney, the writer and producer of the acclaimed television spin-off is accusing the campaign of plagiarizing the show’s catchphrase.

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.

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.

The Dos Equis guy is fundraising for Obama.

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

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

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.

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.

Calvin Broadus is dropping the “Snoop Dog” moniker and rap for “Snoop Lion” and reggae.

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, injecting a dull subject with a much-needed dose of color.

NBC’s Olympic coverage doesn’t necessarily recognize the realities of social networking and the 24 hour news cycle.

Most of the most popular superheroes in American comics are orphans. Coincidence or something else?

Rob Tornoe has revised his Joe Paterno-Bear Bryant cartoon in light of the Freeh Report.

Rush Limbaugh made perhaps one of the dumber comments I’ve seen from the right about the entire Bain Capital story, and managed to display an apparent inability to use Google to look things up.

Why are USA Network characters suddenly saying “Shit”?