by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 13, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
Gregg “Opie” Hughes, formerly of the Opie and Anthony radio/satellite radio show, once called Twitter “the worst place in the world.” His assertion was in reference to the horrid behavior exhibited by some in response to, well, just about...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 10, 2018 | Culture, Not Politics, Opinion
George Carlin had a fun bit about unidentifiable leftovers, which I won’t spoil apart from mentioning that his wife would have him smell that which he couldn’t identify in order to determine its provenance and viability. We all get the gag, of course, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 7, 2018 | Culture, Not Politics, Opinion
Netflix recently released its next bit of original content, a 10 episode adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s superb science fiction novel Altered Carbon. The story, which takes place 500 years hence, is of a world where alien technology has been used to enable...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
It’s become quite fashionable to call Trump, and by extension all who support him, “fascist.” That is, of course, when people aren’t going full-Godwin (I had one such conversation yesterday, where someone was conflating Trump with Hitler, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 27, 2018 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
I’ve been binge-watching an old British television series called MI-5 (or Spooks, depending where you are). One episode I watched last night, late in Season 4 (or Series 4, to use British nomenclature) included a character that was an old, unrepentant Cold War...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 25, 2018 | Culture, Politics
The beginning of National School Choice Week seems an apt time to ponder the term “choice” as it applies to American politics and the left-right divide. The word “choice” has been emphatically reserved by the Left as their own, but this...
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