by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 20, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The American system of government has been described as a “great experiment,” given how radically different it was from how the world operated at time of its inception. It was a huge success and inspired many imitators. That was a couple hundred years ago....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 17, 2020 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
The BLM movement, which has emerged as the “voice” of the George Floyd protests, has chosen to embrace the mantra “Defund The Police” as its remedy to the problems and factors that have resulted in unjustified killings of civilians by law...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 13, 2020 | Culture, Politics
As I read this long but interesting essay on arguments for and against religious persecution in history, I flashed back to my college and post-college gamer days, specifically a running gag I had with a friend. In the Dungeons and Dragons milieu, clerical characters...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 9, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Regular readers should, by now, be familiar with the reforms that we’ve proposed in the wake of George Floyd’s death-by-cop. These reform proposals are by no means unique to this blog, of course, but the more of us that repeat them, the more chance that...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 8, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
George Floyd’s killer, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, has a history that reminded me of an incident and individual from my days working as a paramedic for the FDNY in Brooklyn. My partner and I were dispatched to a developing riot. As we turned across...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 6, 2020 | Culture, Opinion
I recently read a mea culpa, posted on social media, by someone who food-blogs. Apparently, his lack of messaging regarding the George Floyd incident and the Black Lives Matter movement was deemed a punishable lack of support. In other words, his failure to comment...
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