by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 15, 2015 | Culture, Not Politics
I was cleaning up some file folders on my lap top this morning, and came across a copy I had saved of a fantastic essay on Social Justice Warriors. As I gave it another read, I did some googling. After reading Wikipedia about some of the academic history it references...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 15, 2015 | Culture, Not Politics
This, Chef Gusteau’s famous motto, is a quote from the Pixar animated movie Ratatouille. I took an interest in cooking around the time I got into the restaurant business, twenty years ago. In the vein of many 20somethings, I had dabbled before then, and had even...
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 | 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 | Feb 26, 2015 | Not Politics, Opinion
I’ve long grown accustomed to the notion that the metric system is easier and more practical than the English system of measurement used here in the US. We do numbers in base 10, so it’s far easier to contemplate meters, centimeters and kilometers than it...
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...
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