by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
What is the message of today’s Democratic Party and of the Left in general? Yes, we know “Trump sucks,” and Hillary should have won, and the GOP has been taken over by right wing extremists and religious zealots that are going to turn the nation into...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 20, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion
The other day, I had an extended… lets call it a “discussion…” with a couple socialized medicine advocates on the Internet. Yes, yes, silly me. Arguing on the Internet is like (per Google’s third suggestion) playing chess with a pigeon....
by Peter Venetoklis | May 17, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Conservative gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos, never averse to sharing his views, had a fun exchange in late 2016 with ABC News reporter Terry Moran. Nestled in among Milo’s trademark bluntness and take-downs of politically correct themes was a very astute observation...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 12, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Words hurt, and feelings matter. Or, so goes a guiding philosophy of modern social justice. We bear witness to it, domestically, in the disinvitation of speakers at college campuses, in the establishment of safe spaces, in the rise of hate-crime and hate-speech...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 9, 2017 | Culture, Education, Guns, Opinion
The latest entry in the OFFS files comes from Edgewood Middle School in Ohio. A student clicked the “like” button on an Instagram photo of an Airsoft pellet gun posted by another student. Both students were suspended by the school, because “we act on...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 7, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
There’s an old gag I used to try on some of my more gullible friends in times past. Should gullibility ever come up, mention “did you know that the word gullible is not in the dictionary?” The goal, obviously, is to get them to look it up (and its...
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