The Douchebag of the Year 2012
We chose Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu to be the douchebag of the year, because he does such a credible job. The great actor he was...
Guantanamo on My Mind
There is nothing I like better than reading memoirs of converted commies who, just before pension saw the virtues of the system they once...
Rick Perry compares homosexuality to alcoholism. RP’s expert in both?
Note to Rick Perry,
that headache you have after has nothing to do with the kind of sex you're having, it's the Viagra.
As for...
The Trouble with Chris
"Bad manners hide a big, true heart". Most of the people from New Jersey State seem to keep this belief close to their chest;...
Of Stolen Lives and Valor
With delight I was reading about the United States Supreme Court and the Stolen Valor Statute, which criminalizes lies about having received war medals....
The NY Gay Marriage Bill and Its Place in Modern Activism
I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they’ll turn that anger and frustration and madness...
All President’s Women and Ol’ Times’ Man
Here comes Samantha. Sam, to her husband, Cass Sunstein, an American law professor. Sam covered the Balkan wars and learned that for each crime...
How the Incumbent Lion (Obama) Fought to Lose the Presidency to the Phantom Contender
I know Aesop’s fable is about a wise lion who, tickled at the idea of a mouse helping him, let the mouse escape his...
North Carolina – You’re Never on My Mind
North Carolina Allows Officials to Refuse to Perform Gay Marriages, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide Section correspondent. Marquel was lost...
DSK: Cherchez la Femme!
IMF (once) director, and noted Frenchman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was, how do you say, perp-walked off a plane by the NYPD on May 14 as...
The next president of Syria – email from a TPV reader
What I heard is Obama told McCain they were looking for a President and had great respect for old people.
We know from his...
All I Want for Christmas Is… a Revolution
It’s Christmas time and nothing would stave off the cold and unemployment better than a revolution. Lenin gave history one of its most famous...
Don’t Know Much About History: Lessons in Presidential (and would-be presidential) Situational Ethics, Plus...
To paraphrase the eminent Ms. Palin (ignoring for the moment that most of the time she sounds as if she's having difficulty paraphrasing herself),...
Fools Rush In
Marquel, TPVs New York Times Special Idiots and Neocons Section correspondent was stubbornly refusing to wipe something flabby which belonged to his boss, when he read Events...




















