Live from ThePotholeView: According to Us, Gore Vidal Is Still Having Fun
When you have Gore Vidal's irreverent wit and cosmopolitan nature, you cannot stop having fun. At random, I picked this quote to announce his...
La Femme et Son Image
MoMA brought to our attention Cindy Sherman's work this year, but what the New York's modern art crown jewel should also do is bring...
Google Chromebook Attack!
Google is diversifying its single-minded attitude to own us all – material or not. It has just introduced a computer device, the Chromebook, which...
Breaking News: Greece Cannot Publicly Start Killing Its People – No Matter How Old...
Everybody is afraid of Greece. What if Greece gives us another example in democracy and saves its people at the risk of imposing limits...
TheWeekholeView on 2017
Here at TPV things get meaning while they fall through the hole we create for them. 2017 has been mostly Trump and Hillary, and...
Dogs and Puppies and the New Media
Today’s news of the moment is “Kathie Lee Gifford Drops A Puppy on Its Head.” Popular new media outlets such as The Huffington Post...
Secrets: One Year Later
Sometimes TPV is only the conduit. Today we are republishing a message from Edward Snowden. The message was posted yesterday on the blog of the American Civil Liberties Union,...
NYT: Was Abolitionism a Failure? The movement didn’t end slavery; the Civil War did
....War what's it good for? Everything!
Gitlin’s View on Charlottesville: A Step-Up Moment for Leadership
The fire that burns the length and breadth of American history has burst through a firebreak.
BY TODD GITLIN | AUGUST 14, 2017
First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/charlottesville-step-moment-leadership/
Charlottesville...
In Defense of the American Horror Movie: Remain Obese or Die
Mayor Bloomberg is proposing to ban sales of sugar-sweetened beverages over 16 ounces in New York City. Fountain and bottled beverages over 16 ounces...
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,...
Awakening in New York with Maya
Taking the subway is a cultural event I enjoy dearly. This is for you from Maya Angelou, via TPV.
Enjoy!
