Storytelling à l’Ancienne
Oprah taped the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last week. I cannot claim that she helped me raise my children, or that...
When No Should Mean Yes
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Pants On Fire Section correspondent, was wiping the mustard off his mustache when he read that someone at The Times finally...
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...
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,...
Latest Wikileaks Release: Republican Presidential Candidate Emails
On Saturday Wikileaks published a new set of emails to its website, this time featuring emails sent among the leading Republican presidential candidates. It...
Obama the Loyalist
Obama is getting ready for departure, though he just started his second term. He is standing by Lady Hillary who may bring us Gov...
Market Mindlessness
It is a truism that the stock market is a leading economic indicator—that is, how the market does tells us something about how the...
Pope Francis, Could You Be a Rock Star?
We live in the greatest crisis of our lifetime, but we do not care because the obscenely rich take care of our souls. ...
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...
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...
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...
Alien Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQBtIgLdXPcRecent developments from India indicate that the Hindus are catching up with Muslims in the stupidity contest.
Not only India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)...
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...
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...