Got a Vagina, Sister?
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes You Go Girl Section correspondent, was trying on Halloween costumes when he read Cardiff University Rejects Bid to Bar Germaine Greer.
Officials...
It’s Only Water
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes This Won't Hurt A Bit Section correspondent, was walking on needles, when he read Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds.
The...
Two Days Left – Hillary Gave $10 to Bernie. Investing in Charlotte’s Future
Breaking news from a piggy bank somewhere in a Iowan cornfield,
"If TPV can, Hillary surely can afford $10," said the grand dame of the...
Gitlin’s Bannon
First published - http://billmoyers.com/story/bannon-bounced/.
Bannon Bounced
Chaos is the new normal at the White House.
BY TODD GITLIN | APRIL 6, 2017
Bannon Bounced
Steve Bannon, chief strategist for President...
Happy Monday, C.I.A.!
Happy Monday, CIA!
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a major surveillance reform measure late last week:
By an overwhelming margin, the House passed the 2015 defense appropriation bill which, among...
Silence Is Deafening in Bridge Report. At least Marquel Cannot Hear Anything
Shortly after the bridge scandal hit, NJ governor Christie commissioned an internal report by some outside lawyers, for which New Jersey taxpayers paid several...
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...
Guantanamo on My Mind
There is nothing I like better than reading memoirs of converted commies who, just before pension saw the virtues of the system they once...
Hillary’s New Attempt to Torpedo Opposition
Hillary's people have infiltrated the Progressives, which now act as Hillary's minions.
In a desire to promote Hillary as a one-size fits all, the triangulating Progressives are...
TPV and the New Public Intellectual
TPV loves irony as much as it loves ideas. While HAC at Bard College is not the White House, still TPV decided to be...
Gitlin on Trump’s War – A Sport and a Pastime
First published http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/syria-bombs-tv-news.php
WAR IS THE BLOOD SPORT of television. Devastation on the ground—someplace the viewer doesn’t live but where other human beings do, and gasp,...
Todd Gitlin’s Gibberish in the White House
Gibberish Is the White House’s New Normal - The bad art of the non sequitur.
Once upon a time, there were presidents for whom English seemed...
Whatever Works
After decades of introspection, the government of Pakistan has reportedly recognized the importance of “whatever” and is willing to do “whatever” it takes to...
