by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 18, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
The Harvey Weinstein saga, so sordid that it started an avalanche of dialogue about Hollywood’s casting-couch dirty laundry, has bloomed outward into social media and the broader culture. Actress Alyssa Milano started a hashtag movement, #metoo, given women from...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 15, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Comedian George Lopez made tabloid headlines today, thanks to a Trump-bashing performance that fell so flat he was booed off the stage. As the story goes, Lopez was performing at a fundraiser, a major donor asked that he tone down the Trump jokes, and Lopez apparently...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 14, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
The stream of accusations of misbehavior by disgraced creep Harvey Weinstein has turned into a deluge, with actress after actress coming forth with allegations of, to put it mildly, sleazy behavior. In classic emperor-has-no-clothes style, the overwhelming consensus...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 9, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Late last week, the New York Times published an expose of Hollywood power player Harvey Weinstein, who, it appears, is a creep and a sexual predator who “paid off sexual harassment accusers for decades.” The Times report opened the floodgates. A number of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 5, 2017 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
The mass shooting in Las Vegas continues its hold on front pages and social media platforms, and the killer’s motives remain stubbornly unknown and mysterious. Since nature abhors a vacuum, and since this atrocity is tailor-made for the “do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 3, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
The horror and tragedy of the massacre committed in Las Vegas by Stephen Paddock, a massacre that at this point stands without reason or explanation, is incomprehensible even to a society that has seen such a number of times in the past decade. So far, we have seen no...
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