The Douchebag of the Year 2012
We chose Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu to be the douchebag of the year, because he does such a credible job. The great actor he was...
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...
DSK: Cherchez la Femme!
IMF (once) director, and noted Frenchman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was, how do you say, perp-walked off a plane by the NYPD on May 14 as...
America Does Not Need an Arab Spring, Mr. Friedman. It Needs a Leader.
Yesterday, the often mistaken Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times raised an interesting question Does America need an Arab Spring? True to himself,...
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...
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...
First, You Heard It Here: Romney Just Lost the Presidential Race, Says FoxNews
I was talking to the only Potholeview aficionado and learned about Romney’s vice-presidential pick -- the cute white boy from the cheddar cheese state,...
Dallas, D.C.
October 3, 2013. Attempted breach at White House. Stop. Capitol was in lockdown after shots fired. Stop. Pennsylvania Avenue closed. Stop. Secret Service engaged...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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!...
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...
















