by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 6, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Election, Health, Politics, Taxation
Many of us have heard the term “gaslighting.” Some of us even know what it means, and what its origin is. For the record, the Wikipedia definition: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 12, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
A few years back, I crossed a demographic Rubicon. I turned 50. In that instant, my societal relevance plummeted. Marketers, pollsters, and countless other makers and trackers of taste, trends, and zeitgeist lost interest in me. That’s OK, since I’ve been...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 10, 2020 | Culture, Health, Politics
To a consumer of libertarian bloggage, the observation of the government getting something wrong would be a betrayal of bland banality. But New York City’s foie gras ban is not just wrong, it is a case study in the ecosystem of government wrongness. The most...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Guns, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
The University of California at Berkeley, the place where woke happened decades before everywhere else, recently woke up to the fact that its law school carried a name of a racist. What was formerly the John Boalt Law School is now merely The Law Building. A...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A recent statement by President-Emeritus Obama set one of my illustrious friends on a rampage. She correctly derided his assertion that: I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 22, 2020 | Culture, Opinion
A couple writers over at The Post Millennial chimed in over the recent JK Rowling kerfuffle (for those unaware, JK caught the wild eye of the woke horde by tweeting support for a (female) researcher who got fired for stating that biological sex is real. Comparing the...
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