NYT: What a Stronger Dollar Means for the Economy.
Spend everything you've got, mortgage all the rest; wait for the crash.
Fox TV: Promising to broadcast one little truth every now and then, Fox News.com...
Santorum drops out of the presidential race.
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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...
Madonna Does Florence
Amazing Madonna kept a very busy schedule in Florence. She performed in the evening, then spent the night with her 24-year-old French boyfriend Brahim...
TheWeekholeView: The Big Sigh of Relief
In TPV land the week starts now and then, and mostly then, lately. But here comes what fell through the hole these past seven...
One Uncompromising Voice: Bill Martin’s
I do not know if Herbert Marcuse said somewhere that, despite the appearance of great dynamism in capitalist society, nothing really happens, but I...
Our Political Conversation
It is a bad time for political conversation if all that the brightest commentators can do is point out trivial non sequiturs. Or, probably...
Politico: Donald Verilli Choked in Front of US Supreme Court Justices — on...
The Supreme Court of the land threw out Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's request to back the FCC’s decision to fine broadcasters for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe...
The Little Corporal!
We are so lucky to have discovered Jessica Raimi.
Here is a perfect summer read reprinted by permission!*
Beneath the gilded dome of the Invalides in...
NYT: How Expensive It Is to Be Poor
...If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
