On Half Siblings
Jason Zinoman suggests that before criticizing, the critic should divulge her bias: if you don’t like cherries don’t criticize your friend’s mom’s homemade cherry...
Republican Debait RE-CAP: Cris Crispy Participates, BUTT No Gay Talk
Hell, Michigan (Waffle House), via Teletype Croshondola, the Pothole Views Manhole View correspondent, reports from the field:
After the forced gay marriages thingy happened in...
Female Exceptionalism
The last night’s NBC- Golden Globe’s award ceremony put forward Lorne Michaels’ Golden Girls Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Their mild humor showed that...
The Ugly Truth, according to Hillary
Bernie Sanders Announces He Is Running for President, read aloud Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Who? Section correspondent, and Gail Collins responded by writing a tepid op-ed piece...
Brain Rumors
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes IQ Depression Section correspondent, was learning the multiplication table in Chinese, when he read How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain....
Nebraska Helps Trump Make America a Yuge Oily Pond
In an unpredictable move, Nebraska regulators are standing their ground and tell their northern neighbors they stink and they should all go the way...
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...
Halliburton Jingle Bells
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Prophets of War Section correspondent, was watching the Asian CNN when he read that U.S. Foreign Arms Deals Increased Nearly $10...
Not Guilty until Something or Other
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Monkey Trial Section correspondent, was playing hopscotch while pretending to listen to Mufi, when he stopped in the middle of a...
Dallas, D.C.
October 3, 2013. Attempted breach at White House. Stop. Capitol was in lockdown after shots fired. Stop. Pennsylvania Avenue closed. Stop. Secret Service engaged...
Coded Message
There truly is nothing to joke about the Newtown shootings. No jokes to be made about gun control or media coverage. It is why...
Gitlin’s Take on George Orwell on Sean Spicer
First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/george-orwell-on-sean-spicer/
George Orwell on Sean Spicer
A note on the uses of stupefaction.
BY TODD GITLIN | JUNE 2, 2017
The Trumps’ nine-day journey outside the...
Carsonism on Islam
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Flea Speech Section correspondent found time to read G.O.P. Field Wrestles With Questions on Islam and the Presidency.
Donald J. Trump's handling...
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...
















