Wasting Money on the War of the Government’s Two Roses
I was looking to write something entertaining and devoid of my usual bitterness against corporate takeover, and I came up with two names: Mitt...
Revelations
This week’s revelations may not be biblical. Nevertheless, they are entertaining.
Twelve high school girls in upstate New York resolved to engage in neurotic behavior in...
Donald’s Gut Makes Decisions
Mr. Trump will announce his vice-presidential selection soon, the New York Times informs its readers. Mr Trump's decision will be surprising but not really.
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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...
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...
TheWeekholeView – The Polling Nation
Here, each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this week, in more than one way or day since Saturday:
On Saturday,...
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...
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....
Urination, Shame, and Videotapes – Not a Miramax Release
If only from civics 101, Americans should know that peeing on corpses is not nice. I doubt that when the colonists fought the Native...
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...
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 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...
