by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 16, 2019 | Culture, Education, Opinion
My continuing exposure to the culture wars and the political skirmishes of present-day prompts occasional “aha!” moments. Today’s is the conclusion that progressivism and identity politics are, despite their fixation on creating more and more and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 8, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Disgraced stand-up comic and comedy auteur Louis C.K. caught some more flak from the social justice scolds, recently, as recordings of some of recent performances were “leaked” (oh, how sinister and socially responsible that term is!). The quoted jokes are...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 7, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
A giant, ominous, sensationalizing headline on Drudge (shocking, I know) inadvertently punches a few well-deserved holes in a few long-running but fallacious/deflective narratives. For that, we might actually thank the repressive Saudis, who forced Netflix to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 4, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Taxation
In further validation of the notion that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” Christopher Rufo at City Journal informs us of the latest whiz-bang idea coming out of the homeless-advocacy camp is that of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 31, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Opinion
When a drunk driver kills someone, we blame and punish the driver. When a drug dealer kills someone, we blame and punish the dealer. When a husband attacks his wife, we blame the husband. When a bomb explodes, we blame the bomber. When someone gets stabbed with a...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 29, 2018 | Culture, Health, Opinion
At work one day (I’m a paramedic in New York City), I was called to a Subway sandwich shop by a manager concerned over a customer. He met us outside and said it was about a lady who had been there all day, and whom he found unreceptive when he went over to talk...
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