by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
A political friend brought my attention to an interesting (and growing) phenomenon in the public sphere: the mining of someone’s distant past for transgressions against current social mandates. Or, more sinisterly, as a means of taking down someone with whom...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 27, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Amidst all the fallout of the “reveal” that the initial story about the Covington High School students was grossly misleading is the qualified mea culpa from many who rushed to judgment and condemnation. It takes the form of “well, I got it wrong,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 26, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
Major cities around the nation have an ever-increasing, and in some cases dire, homeless problem. New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, DC, San Jose, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston, and Philadelphia rank one through ten in homeless populations, and combined...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 25, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
A disclaimer: To preserve confidentiality, this patient’s name has been changed, and “she” is a composite of several people,. The incidents affirmed here are otherwise factual as witnessed directly by the author. This article will be followed up at a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 24, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
A recent “she’s awesome because everyone hates her” hagiography in Rolling Stone about the newly minted Congresswoman and current political it-girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, written by leftist screech owl Matt Taibbi, proved the old saw that even a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 23, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
All around me, people are engaging in all sorts of post-hoc adjustments of their initial public reactions to the Covington High School incident. I’m going to engage in a tiny bit of smug here, because I neither had nor offered any knee-jerk response to the...
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