by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 9, 2016 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
This morning, one of my political friends shared a “meme” in a political group, and asked for comments about its validity, lack thereof, and so forth. It was an easy dissection, and far less interesting than the notion that combining a phrase, sentence or...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 5, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Among the gazillion reasons and rationalizations put forth to explain Trump’s improbable victory is the supposed proliferation of “fake news.” If you spend any time on the Internet and social media, you’re bound to come across sensational...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2016 | Culture, Environment, Opinion
Do the ends ever justify the means? Is it OK to lie to people in order to achieve an outcome you know is good? Most people would probably answer with “it depends.” They’d be right. Police lie to suspected criminals. Parents lie to children. We lie to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Donald Trump’s reported dressing-down of an invited, closed-door gathering of the media elite has drawn the expected howls of outrage from the titans of the Fourth Estate. It has also served to illustrate the continuing disruption of the mainstream press’s...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 22, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Of all the freedom writers, it so happens that your author is probably the only one with two actual experiences of fires in movie theaters. The first was at Star Wars episode One. About halfway in, I went to the lobby, and found the popcorn machine’s butter...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 17, 2016 | Culture
Today, I learned a new Social Justice term: “GSM people.” As in “Gender and Sexual Minorities.” Apparently, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual) is no longer adequate, nor is LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Queer). GSM...
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