by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 27, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Riot, public insurrections, activism: the definitions are as debatably charged as the modern hyper-prisms people look at politics through in this day and age, so henceforth, I’m referring to these things as “events.” Before we parse event factors or merits...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 26, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
The NFL “take a knee” controversy, once an annoying brush fire, has turned into a full-blown conflagration, with protestations, counter-protestations, expressions of “solidarity,” gestures, regrets in both directions, and calls for systematized...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 24, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
There was a time, not that long ago, where people could hear or read an opinion they disagreed with and not feel the urge to hurl insults or demand that someone silence the sharer of that nonconforming opinion. There was a time, not that long ago, where Other...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 19, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
I just finished a very enjoyable book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. The book presents, in layman’s terms, what we know about the Earth, the universe, our ecosystem, and the human race through the history of how we learned it all. Or,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 18, 2017 | Culture, Drug Policy, Politics
To study the patterns of media umbranoshes and outrages, it seems the more one knows the less one understands. Try to make sense of rioting in the streets over the totally justified actions of the Police in the Michael Brown shooting, versus the comparative community...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 18, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Proving that there’s no idea so terrible that a politician cannot make it worse, today’s New York Post reports a nasty little nugget about BernieCare, Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal to expand the government’s Medicare program to cover...
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