The Gift of ‘The Giver’: Slender Man

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes threatening pop culture figures correspondent became flustered when he read: Milwaukee Suburb Tries to Cope With Girl’s Stabbing, because he knows a...

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,...

Trump’s Twitter Course in Un-American History

Trump-the-TwitterMan is in learning mode, when the teaching does not require more than a few characters. Certainly, he's willing to increase his word-usage, especially if...

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...

Trump to the GOP: You, Dopes

Right before switching to "Made in Trumpland," President D. Trump remembered Trumpcare. He ramped up his outreach to the Hill and hosted a handful of...

Jeff Cohen’s Right – Hill-Billy Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic

Jeff Cohen is cofounder of RootsAction.org, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College got Hill-Billy's number: she...

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...

Let’s Fire Trump While Abroad

In a tweet last week, Trump dismissed the FBI and congressional probes into his Russian connection as a "witch-hunt". Today, The Washington Post writes: Trump made...

Mr. Allen’s Flab-o-phobia

Superficially speaking, Mr. Woody Allen’s latest film is more of the same. It is an integral part of his oeuvre. If Whatever Works portrays...

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,...

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...

Do You Want to See My Peacock

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Kiss The Girls And Make Them Cry Section correspondent, was reading an old love note from one of his college girlfriends, when...

Among the Truthiest People Marquel’s Ever Met Is Hillary

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes self-promotion correspondent could not believe his smile while reading Clinton Takes Responsibilty for Benghazi In New memoir, "Hard Choices.” Hillary Rodham...

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...
20,830FansLike
2,481FollowersFollow
16,700SubscribersSubscribe

Recent Posts