The Affability of Evil. An Evening with Dick Cheney
It is not often, in my experience, that a person is given the chance to find out what he will sell out for. In...
Fred Shapiro’s — and through him, Yale’s — List of Notable Quotes
The original "Yale Book of Quotations" was published in 2006, and Fred Shapiro, the associate librarian at Yale Law School, has updated it with an...
Here We Go Again
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes That's Where I Hail From Section correspondent, was sleeping and snoring, when a fly woke him up, and he read "In...
Magic Mike. Bloomberg, the Male Stripper
Amid concerns that the Marathon may let foreigners gauge the depth of the American dream a week after a tropical storm ravaged what used...
Republicans Declare War on Vaginas -God Plagiarizes Gertrude Stein
In an unprecedented event for the U.S. Congress, the Republican God spoke to Its minions.
Vagina is a vagina is a vagina is a vagina....
This...
Todd Gitlin’s Gibberish in the White House
Gibberish Is the White House’s New Normal - The bad art of the non sequitur.
Once upon a time, there were presidents for whom English seemed...
Coded Message
There truly is nothing to joke about the Newtown shootings. No jokes to be made about gun control or media coverage. It is why...
The Usefulness of Old People
In their first song together, Hey Old Man, the musical group ABBA, which you may have heard of from their Broadway show, Mamma Mia!...
Mr. Just-the-Lawyer
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Competition correspondent was rope jumping when he came across Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs. Once largely limited to the technology...
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;...
NYTimes: Court Confronts Religious Rights of Corporations
The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an Obama administration appeal of a lower court’s ruling that a company could restrict contraception insurance...
Romney Ryan 2012 – America’s Comeback to What? Team
"I'll be back" Arnold Schwarzenegger said as an American actor many times, most notably in his role as the title character in the 1984...
Transformers — A Movie Both Democrats and Republicans Try to Emulate
With Condi Rice the most popular among those Mitt Romney, the Republican Presidential Candidate, is reportedly considering as a vice presidential running mate, American...
Children, Let’s All Go with SYRIZA this Christmas!
It’s Christmas time so, if you follow European politics, it’s Greece time. Greece invented the republic as a form of governing communities, and a...
