Up a Stump, Trump
Donald Trump just offered a lengthy defense of his earlier comments on the overseeing lawsuits against his now defunct Trump University.
The presumptive Republican nominee said critics...
Detainees at Afghanistan’s largest U.S.-built prison chose to stay in and watch Mad Men...
The U.S. spent $60 million to construct a state of the art prison able to house 2000 Afghani detainees. This is the U.S. Army’s...
Our Political Conversation
It is a bad time for political conversation if all that the brightest commentators can do is point out trivial non sequiturs. Or, probably...
Stayin’ Alive in Afghanistan
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Slow Down Section correspondent, was napping, when he had a bad dream and woke up to read U.S. Agrees to Slow Pullout...
Latest Wikileaks Release: Republican Presidential Candidate Emails
On Saturday Wikileaks published a new set of emails to its website, this time featuring emails sent among the leading Republican presidential candidates. It...
Conceding Defeat
The Democrats have no leadership role anymore in American politics. Like much hyped-up bands marketed to seem independent, think The Monkeys or, surprise, surprise,...
TPV’s Times’ Correspondent Debunks Colorado’s Thirst for Guns
Assailant Dead After Shooting at Colorado School, The NY Times reports. Gun manufacturers lament inability to market survey killer but say, "on the whole...
I Don’t Know Anybody Pooping Jewels. And I Feel Content
It is a rare moment that a mother can publicly engage her daughter in a talk about poop quality. I find that rarity refreshing....
God, Save Us from Governor McCrory
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Pardon Me Section correspondent, was trying to give his seat to an injured war veteran, when he had to sit down...
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
The heads?
Everybody’s head is turned toward the President, the man sitting at the head of the table, but whose demeanor denotes discomfort with...
I Wanna Be Your Woman. Not
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Be Careful What You Wish For Section correspondent, was searching for the untold virtues of silence, when he read that
The...
Do Stupid Stuff, Lady. You’re Funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNnK14TkkWY
The tragedy with us, North Americans united in 50 states, is that we are a profoundly anti-intellectual nation. We do not read. We do...
The US Republicans’ New Fable – The Arsonist Burned Down the House
Today is a day of humility. The US House Republicans forced the French people to come, yet again, to our republican rescue. We are not...
Dazed and Confused
Those idiots at the Ford India ad agency are seriously f’ed up. I mean, as India fights its elongated history of men’s brutality on...
