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....
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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),...
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. ...
Selfie as in This Is Me!
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013 is “selfie.” It’s an informal noun (plural: selfies) defined as “a photograph that one has...
Obama Has Become What He Thinks and It Ain’t Pretty
I did not think I would have to come out against a particular presidential candidate. But it just happened. As the founder of Buddhism, Prince...
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...
David Texting Goliath to Look Down
NYPD helicopters regularly wake me in the middle of the night. Usually they’re looking for someone who accidentally shot a close relative while intending...
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....
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...
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...
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...
