by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 5, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Health, Politics
Here’s a little tidbit you may not know: In some jurisdictions, stun guns and tasers are more restricted than handguns. This bit of oddness (guns are clearly more lethal than tasers) is being challenged on Second Amendment grounds by people involved with the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 4, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation
This morning’s news includes a report that fantasy sports gambling is now legal in the state. This brings the number of states where one can play on-line fantasy sports, which for football alone is a market estimated at $70 billion, to forty. Fans of fantasy...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 1, 2016 | Culture, Election, Guns, Opinion, Politics
The Cold War thriller The Hunt For Red October included a gracious exchange between the Soviet submarine captain (Marko Ramius, played by Sean Connery) and one of his officers (Vasili Borodin, played by Sam Neill). In it, Borodin mused on what he would do after they...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2016 | Culture, Environment
An Internet friend recently shared his take on a new climate study that is headlined Historical records miss a fifth of global warming. His interpretation, with which I concur, is: The basic premise is “our climate models are right – it’s the data...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Politics
There’s an old bit of folklore, told in various forms, about a man who got a flat tire and pulled over outside the fence of a mental institution. The story relates how, as he started changing the tire, he noticed a man on the other side of the fence staring at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Election, Politics
The fallout from the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State has spilled over into the realm of legal theory. Legal experts, (what would we do without experts?) have opined with a supposed maxim of our...
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