by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 4, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Yesterday’s blog post, Hating Our Heritage, drew a wide range of responses. Some (notably from people who rather obviously read only an introductory comment and not the post itself) were rather reactionary, arguing straw men and the points that they wanted to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 3, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
With Independence Day looming, Nike designed a patriotic sneaker, with the Betsy Ross flag, and started manufacturing for sale to the public. Colin Kaepernick, who’s built a second career as a self-appointed influencer of all things race- and slavery-related,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 30, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics
San Francisco, the woker-than-thou epicenter of all things progressive, just broke new ground by banning the sale of e-cigarette, aka vaping, products. Ironically, you can still buy actual tobacco cigarettes in San Francisco, and buy them more cheaply than in some...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 29, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
A few years ago, I proposed the banning of the spooky-sounding chemical 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione, which has so infested our food supply that hundreds of millions of Americans suffer daily exposure. Not very libertarian of me, I know, but beyond that, I suspect...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 26, 2019 | Culture, Politics, Taxation
An article that crossed my social media feed this morning highlighted (for me) a particularly insidious idiom that’s become popular among some in the culture-politics scrum. The article, a “come to Jesus” exposition of a feminist writer’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 24, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
This month brings us a span of celebrations and events feting the liberation of the gay lifestyle, collectively known as World Pride. These celebrations, coming on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a two day demonstration against a police raid of the...
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