by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 14, 2020 | Health, Politics
Critics of libertarianism often resort to absolutist arguments, such as “without government regulations and oversight, people will die because crooks, quacks, and charlatans will be free to kill them.” I usually dismiss these protestations as a variant of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 29, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Health, Politics, Taxation
A long-running hallmark of progressive politics is urban planning – the idea that the Best-and-Brightest (TM) should organize our physical lives in a fashion that advances certain goals. Those goals are purported to include efficiency, environmental stewardship,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 19, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Every morning I wake up, holding my breath while I turn on my phone to see the latest news. I think to myself, ‘It can’t be worse than yesterday.’ But when the news loads, I think, ‘Ohhhhh, yes, it is worse.’ Thus spake Barbra Streisand,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 11, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion
What are manners? Manners are the things that we agree to do, but we are not forced to do. This is the heart of the mask argument: if people don’t do it because it’s “just the right thing,” it’s not really possible to make them do it from...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 2, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion
There are times, in my blogging, that I am surprised by the degree of response to a particular topic. One such surprise was, and continues to be, the polarization around the wearing of masks in public places to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the advocacy...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 30, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Would you find a politically-charged controversy about looking both ways before crossing the street perplexing? Would you be puzzled by its polarizing by political party, with finger-pointing across the aisle? Would you wonder what law (on the most lawed-upon people...
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