by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I was recently “evicted” from a closed political group on Facebook. It was both amusing and sad, because it was a group I belonged to for years, a group where I had made a good number of Internet friends, and a group born of the foundational site of my...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
Scarlett Johansson, who by any reasonable measure has had a stellar movie career and will probably continue to do so for decades, recently got caught in the middle of a social justice imbroglio. The actress, who has since resigned from the role, was cast to play a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The word “equal” is a biggie in the American political landscape. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote “all men are created equal,” and explained his meaning by asserting that each of us has “certain unalienable Rights.” Unalienable is...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 16, 2018 | Culture, Immigration, Opinion
I will holler “Amen!” with the choir of much of the nation whenever President Trump is called a big fat meanie. He is. He’s an awful person. But that sentence might have been written the same way, minus President, if we are back in 1990 “Trump...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 12, 2018 | Culture
A recent study about modern, open-plan work and office spaces provides a lesson in unintended consequences and the limits of behavioral modification. The study found that “open plan offices actually make people talk less,” an outcome that is the direct...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Education, Opinion, Politics
In the original illegal cross-country car race movie, The Gumball Rally, the Italian race car driver Franco, played with grand scenery-chewing excess by Raul Julia, informed the owner of the iconic Ferrari Daytona of “the first rule of Italian driving.”...
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