The Beer Test of a True Democracy
If Greeks liked their democracy measured in who knows what, Americans are less sophisticated. They like to vote with their can of beer.
Voters, especially...
Detainees at Afghanistan’s largest U.S.-built prison chose to stay in and watch Mad Men...
The U.S. spent $60 million to construct a state of the art prison able to house 2000 Afghani detainees. This is the U.S. Army’s...
Imagine, Police As a Scratchable Reality
Imagine you could get rid of everything you did not like in life, the way some New Yorker scratched off this word on the...
Breaking Old News – White House Folks Work for The NY Times. And Vice...
TPV has finally something to say. Repeating itself. We make a digital living off The New York Times. Especially its political experts. Their expertise? Staring at...
Trump d’Oeil, Samantha, Doris, and the Feminist Mystique
Donald Trump has called women various names, but what we hear most is the qualifiers "dog," "bimbo," and "fat pig."
Now, I believe the...
TheWeekholeView on Credit
Life is a rollercoaster, and life in the U.S.A. is a SixFlags rollercoaster with Trump in the front seat doing all the screaming. TPV...
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...
Будем здоровы! Or, with Love From Russia
In Russia, you often drink to your own health and say “Будем здоровы!” , which can be translated as “To our health!” but it...
Rupert Murdoch Real Asshole
The founder of the global News Corp. media empire, Rupert Murdoch, issued an apology Thursday after he faced social media backlash following his suggestion...
TheWeekholeView – A Day by Day Account of a Scripted Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0x4aSM5yM4Here, each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this past week, in more than one way or day:
On Wednesday, June...
Fontana’s Old Lynching
Now, lynching is not something you write home about. Nor do you want your grandchildren to know about. But, when grandchildren discover the secret,...
TheWeekholeView Divorces Reality
Here, at TPV headquarters in NearReality, tons happen, but for our readers' benefit only a few things fit the publishing grid:
On Friday, September 16,...
The Wall Street Journal: Ina Drew the Most Recent Icon of Successful Corporate Feminism
According to the print version of The Wall Street Journal, feminists are applauding Ina Drew’s amazing gesture of offering to step aside rather than...
TheWeekholeView: November 7 through November 13, 2012
Here each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this past week: Last Wednesday, November 7, 2012, New Yorkers faced their...
