Post-RNC Convention Notes – Behind the scenes in Cleveland with TPV
The tents have been folded up, the dancing horses (and elephants) loaded back on the trains, and the circus won't be back in town...
Gitlin Spells It Out: Trump’s Media Intimidation Strategy Will Fail
First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/trumps-failing-win-win/
Why Trump’s Media Intimidation Strategy Is Bound to Fail. Trump is pursuing what he thinks is a win-win strategy. But there’s more than...
Chag Sameach! from the White House and TPV
As TPV was busy cleaning up its cupboards of bread crumbs, we were very pleased to receive the email below from our friend, the...
John and a Chesterfield Ad
It was Christbus time but Randolph was alone ‘I can’t understand this being so aloneley on the one day of the year when...
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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Respect and No Respect
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
-Rodney Dangerfield
When people do not respect...
The Non-Misquote
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
―...
On Civilized Freedom and Bullshit
That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent...
Donald the Shithole Chief
During a discussion with a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House on Thursday, President Trump was heard using language derivative of hole, over...
Defining Intellectuals
"If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual...
Coercively … without a thought
Romney has yet to step up as the cases have mounted of Jews posthumously and coercively baptized by Mormons
-- Maureen Dowd,...
She Just Won’t Leave. Go Home and Nap, Hill
Barely two months after Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump, of the Apprentice fame (the reality TV show where he screams at...
The Sporting Life
"Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real...
May Day
May Day, 1886
Resolved by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions the United States and Canada, that eight hours shall constitute legal day's...
