Outside the Beltway

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.

Desktop PC sales fell by nearly 14% in the first quarter, continuing an ongoing trend. There are many reasons this is happening.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

A Brazilian group is suing Apple for making its iPads better too quickly.

You can’t always get what you want.

The Where Angels Fear To Tread Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

American politicians are using China as a scapegoat for America’s problems.

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

Four idiot privates from Fort Stewart planned to take over the base, kill the president, and take over the government.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

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

A new lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary seeks to bar Apple from importing it’s most popular products into the United States.

Facebook’s stock has lost nearly 50% of its value since the company went public, and the plunge probably isn’t over.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Some [expletive deleted] survey says that swearing at work is bad, even though almost everyone surveyed admits swearing at work.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s alleged involvement in moving companies overseas is entirely phony.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

The You’ll Put Your Eye Out Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Most of us with iPhone 4’s use Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant–but for a very limited range of tasks.

The AFA strikes again.

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

The combined value of Apple’s stock is more than the GDP of some countries.

At least some of Mitt Romney”s investment money sits in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. Does it matter?

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

A new Gallup poll indicates that it is Big Government, not Big Business, that most concerns the American public.

Once again, Americans hate Congress but seem to love their Congressperson.

Are these The Final Two?

It’s the 5% versus the 1% moreso than the 99% against the 1%.

A new patent granted to Apple raises once again the question of how far patent protections should extend.

Cain’s public lack of understanding about public policy goes beyond 9-9-9.

The apple logo with Steve Jobs’ profile instead of the bite mark is going viral.