by Peter Venetoklis | May 28, 2014 | Culture, Education
Part of adults’ obligations to the children they bring into the world is to prepare them for their own adulthood. This means that schooling and education should be about more than learning skills and facts and training the brain to think in certain ways....
by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2014 | Culture
The New York City Council imposed restrictions on the use of electronic cigarettes, a practice sometimes referred to as “vaping,” that mirror those imposed on cigarettes. E-cigarettes are an increasingly popular alternative to regular cigarettes, because...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 22, 2014 | Culture
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln declared: Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. He was referring, of course, to the rending of the nation during the Civil War. I read a story on the Reason blog today that...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 9, 2014 | Culture
Frankenfood. Fracking. Star Wars. Axis of Evil. Evil Empire. Shovel-Ready. Obese. Poverty. Organic. Sustainable. Fair Trade. Every one of these words and phrases generates some sort of gut check. Some are positive reactions, others are negative. Some elicit affinity,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 7, 2014 | Culture, Politics
The average duration of Barack Obama’s State of the Union addresses is 64 minutes. George W. Bush’s, 52 minutes. Bill Clinton’s, 75 minutes. Bush, Sr. Reagan, Carter, LBJ and Nixon all managed to stay under hour mark, with Nixon being the most...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 23, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics
Many of my friends know I have a fondness for heavy metal music. Some of my friends share that fondness, some are amused, some have no opinion, but at least a few find it an inscrutable and dissonant element of my personality. It raises an occasional eyebrow when it...
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