by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 12, 2016 | Culture, Opinion
I added a new word to my social justice lexicon today: “woke.” It joins countless other words and acronyms, but it is not merely an addition. It is the epitome, it is the acme, it is Buddhism’s Arhat. It is (for now), the pinnacle of achievement and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 12, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
The Government Hand That Feeds It is well enough known that the Nazis innovated the modern Olympic iconography: the torch ceremony, the photogenic mass fandom in the monumental stadiums braying for reflected national glory. If they discovered what looks good to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 10, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
Stories about people’s Trump signs and placards being stolen have become so common that only the ones with “bonus” features are bothering to register in the zeitgeist nowadays. One man electrified his signs after seven were stolen and after video...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 9, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Taxation
News that the Obama Administration was implementing some rule changes in order to increase revenue from estate taxes reminded me of an old quote: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 31, 2016 | Culture
The internet has gone all atwitter over a recording of a woman berating a Lyft driver for having a Hawaiian hula doll on his dashboard. The short video is well worth a watch, if only to demonstrate that social justice warriors (SJWs) do exist in real life and do fit...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 27, 2016 | Culture, Opinion
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made recent headlines by choosing not to stand for the playing of the National Anthem before a game in which he participated. He offered his reasons for doing so, and the NFL has accepted his right not to stand. While...
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