Did Snowden Join Board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation only because of...
Marquel discovered that once Snowden joined the famed board, he immediately revealed a list of journalists being protected by the foundation, as well as all...
Need to Get High? Say You Have Sluggish Cog..ni…tive T..E..M..P..O
If TPV could fall in love more often and with more people or corporations at once than it already does, the pharmaceutical industry and...
From the White House to Our Readers
TPV just received this email about the White House honoring military men. The email mentions honors paid to people who killed Vietnamese in Vietnam...
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,...
Ready to Swallow This, GoldmanSachs?
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Banking and Depositing Section correspondent, obviously stopped drinking a while ago and given to bouts of boredom read Should We Bank...
De Blasio Picks State Official to Lead City Children’s Agency
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named a top state social services official to serve as his child welfare commissioner, because she is a mother. Gladys...
Barbara’s Younger Son, Jeb
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Like Father Like Son Section correspondent, was engaged in a thoughtful moment when he read that Jeb Bush talks about foreign...
TheWeekholeView: Hillary Cannot Feel the Bern. She’s Crisp Perfect
Here the week starts periodically and this is what fell through the TPV hole this past week:
Sunday, October 12, #CNN sent Hillary the questions, but #WikiLeaks...
November 5th in US History
Few remember outspoken leader of the labor movement, Eugene Debs opposed the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson as the progressive candidate in the 1912 elections....
Government Relaxes Rules on Reading Emails and other Tweets
Reading about the government relaxation of the rules on the use of private information, I sighed and wondered how much more relaxation can they...
Eat Drink Man Placenta. Repeat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs5WiddD7i0
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Zero Calories Section correspondent, was licking some aspartame off his pants, when he read Rethinking Eating. Start-ups are engineering “meat” and “eggs” from...
Mitt Romney, Regular Guy: And Ready to Prove It
With Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican nominee for president, the battle for undecided voters with Barack Obama has begun, and nothing is more important...
Establishment Bananisment. Democratic Theocratic
In the 1972 Robert Redford film The Hot Rock, a gang of thieves triggers a post-hypnotic suggestion using the phrase: Afghanistan Bananistan. In response,...
High School Musical on for Another Season
How the Gleeks are maintaining the stranglehold of mediocrity on mass culture—and what did music ever do to them to make them hate music...






















