Gingrich Reverses Stance on Child Labor. Endorses Slavery as Alternative
Current frontrunner Republican candidate Newt Gingrich backed away from comments he recently made calling child labor laws “stupid” and explained that what he really...
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!...
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...
The C.I.A. Chronicle of a Putsch Foretold – Maduro’s
President Maduro of Venezuela just offered Edward Snowden asylum in Venezuela, risking the Heinz empress and her husband, the US Secretary of State,...
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),...
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 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...
Who Needs Poison When You Can Tweet?
With one 137-character tweet, Valerie Trierweiler, 48, the French First Lady, proved to be an amazing Lady Macbeth: She got rid of her predecessor,...
Mike Konczal Has Not Heard of Karl Marx. Picketty Has. They Used to Be...
Mike Konczal recently reviewed the newest trendy book in economics, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, for the Boston Review. Konczal succeeded the impossible task...
YMCA Branch to Open in Uganda
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Marquel, TPV NY Times diffidently gendered correspondent, was managing his perm, when he read Uganda Anti-Gay Law Struck Down by Court. The court ruled on narrow technical...
Hill’s Makeover or Trump’s Combover? That Is a Question
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Combover Section correspondent, was tanning his toes, when he read Donald Trump, Pushing Someone Rich, Offers Himself. Marquel celebrated Trump's entry into...
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...
If only Hillary Could Do It
The picture shows Vanja Hadzovic, a 27-year-old adviser in Serbia’s Foreign Ministry. Like Bill, TPV wished it were Hillary. It ain't. The gorgeous Hadzovic, 27,...
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...