by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 27, 2017 | Education, Opinion, Politics
I recently took a break from my hoovering “urban fantasy” novels to read Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. The book is a history of the science of the Earth and the universe, with the “history” aspect being discussion...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2017 | Education
Many of Trump’s cabinet appointments have elicited howls of outrage, but one that stands out from the pack is that of Betsy DeVos to Education. DeVos was beset upon all sides by the public-education-monopoly apologists, the teachers unions, the knee-jerk...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2017 | Culture, Education, Opinion
Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated war movie Dunkirk opened this past weekend. Highly anticipated and stellarly-reviewed, it tells one of the great stories of 20th century history: the rescue of 400,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers from a French beach...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 17, 2017 | Culture, Education
It has been said that, if one is not a liberal at 25, he has no heart, and if one is not a conservative at 35, he has no brain. The statement’s origins are murky and more than a century old, but, given what we know about how people tend to evolve politically,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 9, 2017 | Culture, Education, Guns, Opinion
The latest entry in the OFFS files comes from Edgewood Middle School in Ohio. A student clicked the “like” button on an Instagram photo of an Airsoft pellet gun posted by another student. Both students were suspended by the school, because “we act on...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 15, 2016 | Culture, Education, Opinion
I caught a recent interview between magician Penn Jillette and libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie (and broke my no-listening rule because I wanted to hear Penn’s thoughts on Trump, given his extensive first-hand contact with him). The interview ranges far and...
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