by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 7, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
If you play in the on-line political sandbox, as I do, it’s inevitable that you will be the subject of personal insults, derogations, and impugnments, often decoupled from any actual counterpoint or rebuttal to your comment. The likelihood and quickness of this...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 5, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
The Babylon Bee, a brilliantly funny satire website authored by Christians, hit the big time recently when the folks at Snopes, a fact-checking and debunking website (that has drawn criticism for ideological bias) started deconstructing some of the Bee’s jokes...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 1, 2019 | Economics, Election, Opinion, Taxation
As someone who’s ‘of a certain age,’ and who has been attempting to save and invest money for retirement for several decades, I’ve grown a bit weary of the financial news outlets’ method of reporting market and stock performance....
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 28, 2019 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
A friend shared a meme today. “Jamie,” sporting a hammer-and-sickle next to her name, posits a question about magically solving hunger, climate change, and broken homes by curtailing millionaires’ and billionaires’ power and money, and dares...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 27, 2019 | Election, Opinion, Politics
The Bible tells us that “there is nothing new under the sun,” and indeed that adage is reflected in the world around us. Pop culture tells us the same stories time and again, stories that themselves are rooted in tropes, i.e. ‘commonly recurring...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 26, 2019 | Election, Opinion, Politics
In the movie “The Sting,” the heroes goad the heavy, Doyle Lonnegan, into a blind vendetta by out-swindling him. Lonnegan’s complaint: “What was I supposed to do, accuse him of being a better cheat than me?,” is the position of both...
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