Conchita Wurst (Sausage) Takes the Cake at Eurovison

Amazing news! Eurovision, the pop competition which brought this TPV writer ABBA brought all of us Conchita. Conchita is an Austrian citizen. He is...

Feminist Success Stories

TPV readers know of National Security Adviser Susan Rice, because we wrote about how inept she was back when she held the position of...
Wired for Camels

Wired for Camels

Let Curiosity Be Your Compass! Says the large print in Wired, a full-color monthly American magazine, published in both print and online editions, that reports on how...

eBay Benefited from Hacker Attack

The first giant of digital commerce, eBay, is undergoing a major makeover. Hackers accessed the data of 145 million users, mostly US citizens and took down their bust,...

Kate’s Bare Breasts or the Prophet Muhammad’s je ne sais quoi? Why Not Both?

Amid continuing protests by Muslims around the globe over a controversial anti-Islam film made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian, and more protests to come because...

I Went to a Riot and a Palestinian Peace Rally Broke Out. Or. The...

After the fiasco of last year's Gaza flotilla, in which nine Turkish activists were killed when IDF commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara as it...

TheWeekholeView: Guess Who’s Happy and Who’s Happier

Here, each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this past week, in more than one way or day: On Wednesday,...

New York Times. No Offense Intended

From The New York Times, By Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Let's Not Make Waves Section correspondent, was swimming in the East River, when he took...

Watch, Don’t Think: The Case of “Top Secret” in Beijing

There is a profound distinction to be made between seeing and thinking, between witnessing something and unpacking it intellectually.  Wrapped up in these concerns,...

Breaking News: Sweden – the Best US Ally in the War against Free Speech

Henning Mankell, the acclaimed Swedish mystery writer, is rumored to be resurrecting his Kurt Wallander series with the new installment: Sweden One Step Ahead...

Tragicomedy à la Federico Fellini

The United States of America is tired of being the world’s Cesar.  To make sure that it can retire, even if no one steps...

Wine’s Pedigree Faked

European authorities are pursuing a network of counterfeiters who passed off hundreds of bottles of mediocre wine as Romanée-Conti, often considered the best...

Urination, Shame, and Videotapes – Not a Miramax Release

If only from civics 101, Americans should know that peeing on corpses is not nice.  I doubt that when the colonists fought the Native...
In Plain Sight- But Classified

WikiLeaks Cannot Hurt the US Government, Judge Kollar-Kotelly Decided

I used to applaud the decisions of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court in Washington, especially the one describing the Bush...
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