Old School …New Expectations
Is Your First Grader College Ready? That's what the Times asked today. Marquel didn't know how anybody could answer that. Is there a first...
Getting Exercised
Can you imagine the bad news, Marquel thought chewing fast some mashed potatoes, Dave Goldberg, Silicon Valley Executive, Said to Have Died After Exercising....
The Unbearable Lightness of Money
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Surprise Surprise Section, was blowing his nose to avoid picking it, when he read
Hillary Clinton Set to Announce 2016 Presidential Bid. The...
New Year’s Retributions: Getting Back at Those Who Did You Wrong
This is the time of year when nearly everyone seems to be making some sort of resolution about what they’ll be doing (differently, usually)...
Inexplicable Daily Events: The Japanese Care. Congress Lunches on Wheat
We may not think that the Japanese are our keepers, but they are, and may the power remain with them.
In 2004, the United States...
Rick Perry Eagle Scout … Who Sometimes Wears His Pin…
Only when he is cruising,
a foul-mouthed reader told us.
Anyway, everybody knows that Texas Gov. Rick Perry once wrote a book about the Boy...
November 5th in US History
Few remember outspoken leader of the labor movement, Eugene Debs opposed the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson as the progressive candidate in the 1912 elections....
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...
Gitlin’s Fakebook inside the Facebook
What to do about a global info-and-disinfo pipeline, and who can do it?
BY TODD GITLIN | NOVEMBER 7, 2017 --First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/fakebook-inside-facebook/#
The Fakebook Inside Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg's...
Booyah to Wesley Clark. Senior
Wesley Clark was not a well-known name until the Clintons promoted him to the position of NATO commander during the second great Balkan disintegration...
Republican Debait RE-CAP: Cris Crispy Participates, BUTT No Gay Talk
Hell, Michigan (Waffle House), via Teletype— Croshondola, the Pothole View’s Manhole View correspondent, reports from the field:
After the forced gay marriages thingy happened in...
They Shoot the Stupids Don’t They?
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Double Standard Section correspondent, was making dinner when he read Test for U.S. Shift on Cuba Is Whether Rights Improve. President Obama’s decision...
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...
