NYT: How Expensive It Is to Be Poor
...If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Bernie For President
I could see them supporting Bernie then. Money has changed them so much. Too bad.
The Motorcycle Taxis — Why Hasn’t New York City Adopted Them Yet?
Perhaps even more intriguingly is why hasn't San Francisco introduced the motorcycle taxis yet? The motorcycle taxi's main attraction is that you can sit...
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...
NYT: Source of Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Might Be Bats, Study Says.
African baseball season cancelled until new rules allow play without bats.
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,...
Mayday Mayday: A SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs
From our email inbox to our readers: Here's the exciting news: We all know this democracy is in distress. It's time to send an urgent...
Class and Tawdriness on the Internet. Where’s the News? It Ain’t Cheap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSHj2-UqFIIt was expected to premiere at Cannes, but Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York”, based on the sex scandals and legal battles of French...
NYT: Taking Up Gay Marriage, but on Their Own Terms
...Court promises to decide in sickness and in health, says "we do."
WSJ Takes the Print Prize for Reporting News as if It Were Non-News
While
-The New York Times reports the $2 billion JP Morgan mismanaged or misappropriated a "loss which is likely to strengthen call for regulation" in the...
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...
POLITICO: The President’s Advisors Have Finally Agreed that Gay Money Is as Good as...
President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage Wednesday, telling Robin Roberts of ABC News,
I've just concluded that for me personally it is...
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...
