It’s The Economy, Stupid!
Finally, my academic position is becoming a run of the mill opinion. In fact, The New York Times made it visible for everybody to...
The Fatbook and Fakebook Nations Collapse
Cronut Factory, Icing Department (via TrumpType on eyePhone) Croshondola was knee-deep in cronuts when she read Cris Crispys Fatbook page, which said he...
Hillary’s Planned Parenthood Endorsement Feels Like an Abortion
Marquel TPV's NYTimes My Enemies' Friends Are My Enemies' Friends Section correspondent, was considering gender reassignment surgery, when he read Planned Parenthood, In Its First...
The Doughnut Hole
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Pickled Herring Section correspondent, was eating a pizza when he read Something Not Rotten in Denmark.
An example of a welfare state...
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...
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,...
Kim Davis. A Life Made by News
Rowan County clerk Kim Davis got her job when her mamma retired from that same job because 49, Kim's clock started ticking for Social security...
Syria – Big U.S. Foreign Policy News
Syria has become big news. Days ago, right before his birthday, the U.S. President Barack Obama authorized secret support for the forces opposing the...
The Kids Are Alright. Or Maybe They Aren’t
I own the CD “The Best of Pete Townshend,” and the use of the word ‘best’ in relation to this collection of songs is...
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...













