by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 31, 2015 | Culture
Not content with the myriad anti-discrimination laws already on the books, and in what I can only surmise to be a hell-bent intent to out-do the other politically-correct, social justice, statist hellhole cities scattered around the country, New York City recently...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 18, 2015 | Culture, Health
Health care and health insurance have been major topics of discussion and divisive issues ever since President Obama decided to make health insurance reform a priority of his first term in office, and were high concept topics for decades before that. One of the most...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 17, 2015 | Culture
A recent story in The Guardian illustrated an interesting trend in the feminism/women’s rights world. That trend, appearing right in the headline, is a new contextualization of the concept of victimhood. Feminism has traditionally been about empowerment,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 5, 2015 | Culture
I was originally going to call this essay “The Modern Man,” but I realized that the term “man” has nothing to do with the archetype I’m going to discuss herein. Behold, the model for Axe Dry Spray antiperspirant. Coiffured hair, carefully...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 5, 2015 | Culture, Politics
A neighbor of mine, a dyed-in-the-wool, active Democrat, mentioned during a recent discussion that people don’t understand that freedom of speech isn’t absolute. His is a valid observation on its face, but as always, context and particulars matter. He...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 1, 2015 | Culture, Economics
Just under a decade ago, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and sent a thousand pound spacecraft name New Horizons on a very, very, VERY long journey. With a little help from Jupiter’s gravity, New Horizons arrived at the distant ex-planet Pluto...
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