Greetings from Xiangxiang
The One in Which Croshondola Was Finally Paid the Per Diem
Warehouse 29
Halliburton Plot
Square 0, Xiangxiang
Peoples’ Republic of China (via 4chan):
Croshondola was found ass-up and...
Presumed Guilty
Iran Sets Trial Date for Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Just Ask Alice Section correspondent. Marquel understood there is no evidence...
I Spy with My Little Eye
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy Section correspondent, was playing I Spy with his little nephew, when he read .
The unlikely story...
Return of the Samurai
Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Military, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Ah So! Section correspondent.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe succeeded in his effort to...
NGOs Curry Favors
Pakistan Warns Aid Groups to Follow Unspecified Rules, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Three Card Monte Section correspondent. Marquel was intrigued by Pakistan's insistence that foreign...
Jewish Cemetery Vandalized because …Abandoned
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Uninhabited Territories Section correspondent, was having breakfast when he read Jewish Graves Vandalized in France . Over 250 gravestones were vandalized in...
Long Live Charlie Hebdo! Charlie Hebdo Still Works
Charlie Hebdo Mocks Europe’s Response to Migrant Crisis With Cartoons of Dead Syrian Boy, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Bad Taste Doesn't Taste So Bad...
TPV’s Final Interview with Che’s Manhunter
In an interview with TPV, former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, who participated in the historic manhunt to capture Ernesto "Che" Guevara, repeated and elaborated...
ISIS Assessment
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Mutual Admiration Section correspondent was flying paper planes when he stopped to blow his nose and to read the Times. He...
The Pope’s Last Lesson – Carpe Diem
"Benedict XVI's Latin is very easy to understand," Italian Giovanna Chirri tweeted in English moments after she alerted the less literate that the Pope’s...
The Phone Number Keeper
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Privacy and Net Neutrality Section correspondent, was surfing the Net, when he read, 2 Members of Sect Executed in China for Deadly...
Eurovision 2017 Rediscovers Music
Salvador Sobral, 27, won Eurovision 2017 with his love ballad Amar Pelos Dois, which was written by his sister.
He said on receiving the trophy:
"We...
Inexplicable Daily Events: The Japanese Care. Congress Lunches on Wheat
We may not think that the Japanese are our keepers, but they are, and may the power remain with them.
In 2004, the United States...
The Bustard Falcon
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Birds of Pray Section correspondent, was hunting game in the NYC subway system when he read about a bird of contention...
