by Peter Venetoklis | May 4, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion
The transgender “controversy,” for want of a better word, has seemed to me very much a tempest in a teapot, an issue that’s resolvable by basic free market forces and basic courtesy, and that has been used as a source of deliberately excessive...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 30, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
This week, the streaming network Hulu premieres its original adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel, a dystopian near-future tale about an America that has descended into theocratic patriarchy, reflected fear...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 20, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
The science fiction classic Dune finds the main character invoking the “Litany Against Fear” as he endured a test of will. The Litany, which reads: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 15, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Recently, as part of the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan, the US military dropped a massive, 22,000 lb munition on an ISIS tunnel complex. The munition, formally named GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), but happily dubbed “Mother Of All...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 14, 2017 | Culture, Economics
It’s generally a good idea, when a news bit elicits either a “hoo-rah” moment of empowered concurrence, to take a breath and ponder the why and wherefore of that hoo-rah. So it should with the story of the Fearless Girl statue recently placed in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 10, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Hollywood wunderkind and vocal anti-Trump activist Joss Whedon offered up a lulu of a tweet a couple days ago, where he suggested that the reported kidnapping and murder of a number of gay men by authorities in Chechnya is a prelude of what will happen in America if...
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