Rick Perry’s Words: Chosen, Not Spoken
This may not be news to you, but it took us a bit longer than expected to assemble an internationally renowned team which could carefully decipher Rick...
Gitlin Watches What He Tweets When Alone
First published here http://billmoyers.com/story/watch-what-trump-tweets-but-also-what-he-does/.
Watch What He Tweets but Also What He Does
@realDonaldTrump in action
BY TODD GITLIN | JUNE 19, 2017
The Twitter accounts of President Donald Trump, @POTUS and...
Where Do Bad Lawyers Go? To the Courthouse.
There are bad doctors. Plenty. Few of them though do sophisticated surgeries. Why? If they butcher too many people no one will show up...
The Day’s Long Journey into Night
Writing my dissertation, I learned that thoughtfulness and restrained judgment differentiate the light-hearted liberal of today from the angrier intellectual I once was. But,...
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...
TheWeekholeView – See Whose Omerta Broke
Here, each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this past week:
Last Wednesday, January 9, Jimmy Kimmel made an impressive debut in his new...
The Elderly, Sometimes a Man’s Best Friend
Older People Are Invisible in Key Data, Study Warns, and Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Ralph Ellison Section correspondent, wandered in the desert for about 10 minutes.
Vast...
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...
Scalia to Lie …More
The New York Times just announced that Scalia Was to Lie in State in Great Hall of the Supreme Court. Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Lying...
Days Earlier DHS Awards Docu-Oscar to 5 Broken Cameras. Way to Go Hollywood!
In an unprecedented move, the Daily News reports, LAX- Los Angeles International Airport security personnel broke decades-old rule about keeping quiet when they see...
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...
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,...
Barry & Michelle — The Mountain High
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Mounting Rights Section correspondent, was having eggs over easy, when he read that 3,000 Miles From Denali, Ohio Fumes Over Renaming...