by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 5, 2015 | Culture, Politics
George Takei, actor and political activist, ignited a furor recently when he excoriated Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over segments of the latter’s dissent in the recent Obergefell v Hodges case that recognized gay marriage as a right. Takei, who is gay...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 3, 2015 | Culture, Economics, Politics
The recent ruling by the Supreme Court that affirms gay marriage nationwide has been met with jubilation by many and trepidation by many others. Amid many of the latter’s reasons (some of which are slippery-slope fallacies, some of which are laments about...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 11, 2015 | Culture, Education
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld made Internet waves recently with an observation regarding comedians and colleges, wherein he observed that college kids today are too politically correct, too attached to making declarations they don’t fully understand, and that many...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 8, 2015 | Culture
Try as I might, it seems I cannot escape the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner saga. When the story first broke, I pondered it for a little while, realized that I didn’t much care, said to myself “I hope he/she is happier now,” and looked for other things to...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2015 | Culture, Not Politics, Opinion
Name a professional athlete, one at the very top of his or her game. We all know the names: Mays, DiMaggio, Montana, Payton, Gretzky, Howe, Pele, Jordan, Russell, Nicklaus, Woods, Federer, Graf, Williams, Ali, Robinson. How about a seminal name in music, one whose...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 29, 2015 | Culture, Education
Pay attention to the socio-cultural wars, and you’ll hear the word privilege a fair bit. Privilege used to be an innocuous word, used at times to denote honor and humility (“it’s my privilege to stand before you today”), to identify benefits...
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