by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 29, 2015 | Culture, Health, Not Politics
A friend and former employee who has gone all-in on healthy living and all things natural has been sharing a variety of links and news stories with me of late – stories decrying GMO foods, Big Pharma, chemotherapy and Monsanto as the greatest evils of modern...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 7, 2015 | Culture
Just in from an alternate universe that we might call the left wing of the left wing comes a declaration that the three-meal-a-day routine that is the norm of daily life is racist. This deep insight comes courtesy of Kiera Butler, a senior editor at Mother Jones. The...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 1, 2015 | Culture, Environment, Health, Politics
I came across an interesting observation on a political page yesterday. The commenter asked why it seemed that the people most certain that the science of global warming was settled and irrefutable were oftentimes vocally anti-vaccine and anti-GMO. At first blush, it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 25, 2015 | Culture, Environment
Earlier today, an internet friend of an internet friend posted this comment: So they have a truth which is unalterable, it’s beneath them to debate with outsiders, they have texts full of dire prophecies I mean predictions that never seem to come true. They sell...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 21, 2015 | Culture, Not Politics, Opinion
I caught a documentary about the late great rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix last night. I knew parts of his story, and of course am familiar with his music and on the effect it had on the British and American music scene in the late 1960s. I was also reminded that he was...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 10, 2015 | Culture, Politics
A century ago, Sigmund Freud coined the phrase the narcissism of small differences. He built upon previous works to postulate the phenomenon that: it is precisely communities with adjoining territories, and related to each other in other ways as well, who are engaged...
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