by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 23, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
When Donald Trump ran for office, there was nothing unusual about our illegal immigration issue. The height of the problem, such as it ever was, happened in 2005. We had less of an issue with illegal migration when the borders were unenforced. Then, migrant workers,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Some of my blog-spirations (if I dare elevate them to that level of sagacity) come from seemingly disconnected things that somehow connect themselves inside the labyrinths of my brain. One such occurred yesterday, where several disparate topics came into confluence. A...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 14, 2019 | Culture, Health
Actress Jessica Biel, who grew from a tween to a Maxim cover girl on the family drama 7th Heaven, and has since put together a respectable television and movie career (and married Justin Timberlake to form a Hollywood power couple), found herself in the midst of quite...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 13, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Taxation
MacKenzie Bezos, now-ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, made headlines when she got $36 billion as her divorce settlement, and then promptly made more headlines when she joined the Giving Pledge, an initiative whereby the world’s wealthiest promise to give a...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 3, 2019 | Culture, Politics
It’s right there in the opening credits. The mechanisms of power, the institutions, the gears, are everything. By the time Game of Thrones (GoT) wound down, it was quite clear that the “wheel,” which Daenerys Targaryen devoted her life to breaking,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 29, 2019 | Culture
SPOILER WARNING: Below are some Game of Thrones commentary and decontextualized quotes, though no specific plot point divulgence. Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 4 continued its uneven and, in some ways, hurried denouement of George R.R. Martin’s sprawling...
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