by Peter Venetoklis | May 15, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
I recently discovered the Jerry Seinfeld series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, a show about, literally, what its title says. Every week, Jerry and a comedian friend take a ride in a (always different) classic car to a coffee shop, diner, or similar eatery and...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 14, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
Every so often, I read a story of a police raid gone wrong. Sometimes, it’s a ‘wrong house’ situation, sometimes it’s an unfortunate outcome of someone ‘swatting’ someone else, sometimes it’s overzealousness on the part of an...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 11, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
There’s a great George Carlin bit (a – I repeat myself, b – aren’t they all?) about driving, where George explains that anyone who drives slower than you is an idiot and anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac. This bit came to mind this...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 10, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
There are times where President Trump says or does things that run contrary to the conventional wild man narrative, and there are times when he validates all the worst things his critics say about him. His recent tweet suggesting (threatening?) the Press with...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
The arc of Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy coincided with an effort to rehabilitate the word “socialism.” It was somewhat successful, in that, nowadays, it’s not nearly as off-putting a term as “fascism” or...
by Karl Wright | May 5, 2018 | Culture
Much ink has been spilled on the phenomenon called “cultural appropriation” – or rather, the way today’s social justice warriors have now identified this as a great “sin,” and use the standard shaming and peer-pressure techniques to...
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