True Educational Grit
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes True Grit Section correspondent, was grinding his teeth when he read Should Schools Teach Personality? Traits like “grit,” more associated with personality...
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...
All Four Legs of the American Manufacturing Stool Endorse Obama
There are only four important export industries left in the U.S.: pharmaceuticals, entertainment, aeronautics, and a few computers. Headed by the pharmaceutical industry, they...
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...
The Funny Symbolism of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case
The best synopsis of the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I believe, was published by The New York Times on August 23, 2011. Clyde Haberman...
You said TPV Rocks. Here is the proof
Classic rock mix for your morning workout from the desk of The Pothole View. Yes, we know. There is no shortage of workout music....
Breaking into the Mind of Ted Cruz
CNN has recently reported that
Ted Cruz is condemning the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, but is refusing to blame the attack on the...
Missions Signal a Growing Role for Mormon Women. And Other Minorities
As expected, The New York Times reported on Missions Signal a Growing Role for Mormon Women. Unexpectedly, Marquel, TPVs Times correspondent dug further and discovered...
Douchebaggy Behavior –Douchebaggery — on the Rise
A recent study published in the Journal of Confirming What Is Already Obvious and more found that the incidence of Douchebags occurring in the...
The Theory of Internet-Based Information
Watching and reading about the recent film, Page One: A Year The New York Times, is a strange experience. To be sure, its subject...
Latter Day Communists
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Stupid Bigotry for Soi-Disant Religious Reasons Section correspondent, Marquel read NYTimes: States Weigh Legislation to Let Businesses Refuse to Serve Gay...
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...
Hey, You! The President Is Talking to You
This was a surprising email - the President of the United States emailed me starting with: Hey, which was very sincere. Why would the...
The NSA as Comic Book Javert
Former National Security Agency contractor turned whistle-blower Edward Snowden is about to become a comic book character.
"I found him to be a very fascinating...















