by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 30, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
An innocuous “memory” was offered by Facebook this morning. I chuckled at it – it was a “throwaway” comment about a moment I had on a vacation a number of years ago – and was about to re-share. Then, I paused. Was this harmless...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 15, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Health
A recent conversation about organ donations reminded me of another, decades-old, conversation I had with a co-worker during a company blood drive. Apparently, he had donated regularly for many years. Then, if I recall correctly, a family was soon to undergo a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 6, 2019 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
Movie naughtiness in the pre-MPAA era. “Jazz musicians,” code for black entertainers who smoked pot. Elvis Presley’s hips. Comic book salaciousness. The Beatles’ mop tops. Jim Morrison saying “get much higher” on Ed Sullivan....
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
We witness, yet again, the horror of innocents going about their daily routines murdered en masse by a piece of human garbage. Twice in one day, in El Paso and Dayton. The history of such events cautions us to take our time in our pursuit of understanding, to avoid...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
Two more mass shootings, and an entirely predictable spectrum of responses and proposed remedies from the usual sources. Politicians, both from the Rahm Emanuel angle and as a general rule, leap immediately to advance the solutions that fit their ideologies....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Playwright, auteur, and late-in-life conservative convert David Mamet referred to socialism as the abdication of responsibility. The resurgence of socialism in the American political landscape, itself born of the “childing” of age-of-majority youth via...
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