by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 24, 2015 | Culture, Politics
About three years ago, Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in Colorado, refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple on the grounds that it violated the owners’ religious beliefs. The couple, rather than find another baker to hire, decided to file a complaint...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 15, 2015 | Culture, Not Politics
I was cleaning up some file folders on my lap top this morning, and came across a copy I had saved of a fantastic essay on Social Justice Warriors. As I gave it another read, I did some googling. After reading Wikipedia about some of the academic history it references...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 15, 2015 | Culture, Not Politics
This, Chef Gusteau’s famous motto, is a quote from the Pixar animated movie Ratatouille. I took an interest in cooking around the time I got into the restaurant business, twenty years ago. In the vein of many 20somethings, I had dabbled before then, and had even...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2015 | Culture, Environment, Politics
David Harsanyi has a piece over at Reason that observes how the government often gets it wrong when putting forth health-related guidelines. Among others, the government got it wrong on cholesterol, saturated fat, salt, second-hand cigarette smoke, eating breakfast in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 12, 2015 | Culture
One evening, when you’re watching television, pay attention to the commercials you see. Pay special attention to the relationships depicted between the people in the commercials, and take note of the demographics of each character. You may notice a pattern. A...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 12, 2015 | Culture, Politics
Ah, society. A word often used in conjunction with defenses of the imposition of the will of the majority via governmental force. A word woven into the concept of the social contract, itself a construct intended to justify the imposition of the will of some upon...
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