by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
The usual places have been buzzing over the latest “deadline” to save the planet, one that’s quite interesting in both its timing and its delayed dissemination. A BBC report quotes “Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2019 | Culture, Election, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York for another two and a half years, then (thankfully) term-limited into the history books and (hopefully) ignominious obscurity, is continuing his (farcical) quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination by engaging in rhetoric...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 12, 2019 | Environment
As I picked up after my old hound dog today (yeah, a great “visual” with which to open an essay), I briefly pondered the life cycle of the plastic shopping bag that now contains his ablutions. I recently covered the empty self-importance surrounding the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 29, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
A few years ago, I proposed the banning of the spooky-sounding chemical 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione, which has so infested our food supply that hundreds of millions of Americans suffer daily exposure. Not very libertarian of me, I know, but beyond that, I suspect...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 22, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Politics
Yesterday, we teetered on the verge of a shooting war with Iran, something that neocons are salivating over, but something that the rest of the country has little stomach for. And, for what? To keep the Strait of Hormuz unmolested, i.e. preserve shipping lanes for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Taxation
Many people loooove to scold other people, and many politicians loooove to hop on bandwagons that involve scolding. And, when ideas about controlling scoldable behavior arise, they, like lies, run twice around the world before corresponding truths even get out of the...
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