Of Gods, Charlie Hebdo and Tasseography
This past week, the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, had its Paris office firebombed. Its website and Facebook page were also hacked and remain...
Practicing Charity and Helping Mitt Fall from Grace with Dignity
Unfairly, Mitt has been accused that he does not care about 47% of the American population. At a fundraiser, Mother Jones reports, Romney was...
Sleepless in Trumptopia
Haris Durrani is a remarkable young man who recently felt that he needed to stand up and speak up. TPV has always bemoaned stupidity and...
Todd Gitlin’s Management of Unleashed Insanity
The Management of Unleashed Insanity
Trump perfects the role of Propagandist-in-Chief.
BY TODD GITLIN | MARCH 16, 2017
The Management of Unleashed Insanity
President Richard Nixon during a...
Where Obama Failed DOE Succeeded: NYC Standardized Tests Have Reached Post-partisanship (AKA, Idiocy)
In light of the 50 banned words by the NYC Department of Education (DOE), Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, for example, would be changed for the...
America’s Beautiful Guns
Marquel, the only Times rigorous reader correspondent, woke up to the old news that guns have their own mind and will, much like a man. A...
Mahmood Swings. The Past Is the Future for Israel and Iran
The past several months, and even years, have brought a lot of talk about how an Israeli attack on Iran’s incipient nuclear capabilities will...
Children, Let’s All Go with SYRIZA this Christmas!
It’s Christmas time so, if you follow European politics, it’s Greece time. Greece invented the republic as a form of governing communities, and a...
If You Feel like Saying No Today, Say It to the Koch Brothers
The great struggle of our time is to prevent the United States from becoming an oligarchic form of society in which the economic and...
Gitlin’s Punches
First published here - http://billmoyers.com/story/times-still-pulls-punches/
The ‘Times’ Still Pulls Its Punches
Why is the leadership of the “opposition party” still mincing words?
BY TODD GITLIN | MARCH 28,...
Movie Star Quality at Reality Star Prices
The new ad for Wódka Vodka claims to deliver "Movie Star Quality, Reality Star Pricing." I say Mazel Tov! and move on. But the...
Valerie T May Soon Be Free to Tweet to Her Heart’s Content
The French satirical publication Le Canard Enchaine is not our Onion. Its articles, even when more wishful thinking than factual reports are the result...
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty
TPV agrees with Bernie Sanders: "Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty."
TPV only adds: Not Even #KanyeWest
Sign my petition if...
Slow Burn Impostors!
A solution to the race classification problem—a final solution, if you will—is easily achieved
Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP executive who apparently claimed to be...
