by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 14, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A cornerstone element of the principle of free speech is that speech that one disagrees with, or finds offensive, must be as protected as speech one likes. Many have echoed this premise, with various forms of: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Education, Politics
A recent kerfuffle on the gossip pages involved the engagement of 65 year old Dennis Quaid to his 26 year old girlfriend. It’ll be his fourth marriage and her first. Typing “Dennis Quaid” into Twitter’s search field offered, as the third...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2019 | Culture, Politics
Criminal justice reform, long a cause of libertarians and others who respect the rights of citizens, has in the blink of an eye gone from addressing injustices and prosecutorial excess to condoning lawlessness and abandoning government’s fundamental duty to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 8, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Guns, Opinion, Politics
A current, virally popular Internet meme template is “Woman Yelling At A Cat,” which depicts Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing at a smug-looking (aren’t they all?) white cat, with a caption that mocks the woman for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 28, 2019 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Four years ago, I lamented the coercive homogenization of how we think that was born of the morphing of “political correctness” into “propaganda compliance.” Part of that lament was the emergence of an internecine battle between feminists and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 26, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
I recently finished binge-watching Red Oaks, a very pleasant comedy set in and around a New Jersey country club in the mid-late 1980s. Those of a certain age will remember that was the era of the emergence of Japanese business as a global powerhouse, and of American...
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