by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 25, 2016 | Election, Politics
The phrase “20/20 hindsight” is often used in a derogatory fashion to call out those who claim better insight into a matter simply because they get to view it after-the-fact. Sometimes, however, it takes retrospective clarity to open our eyes to something...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Donald Trump’s reported dressing-down of an invited, closed-door gathering of the media elite has drawn the expected howls of outrage from the titans of the Fourth Estate. It has also served to illustrate the continuing disruption of the mainstream press’s...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 22, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Of all the freedom writers, it so happens that your author is probably the only one with two actual experiences of fires in movie theaters. The first was at Star Wars episode One. About halfway in, I went to the lobby, and found the popcorn machine’s butter...
by Lee Maclin | Nov 21, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
I feel your pain. You came to this with what you thought were the best intentions, but you didn’t get what you wanted (I never get what I want). Now, you’re talking about moving to Canada or Spain, or seceding from the Union to live in the world’s sixth largest...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 21, 2016 | Election, Politics
Hillary Clinton became the fourth presidential candidate in US history to win the popular vote but lose the electoral college tally. She is preceded in this by Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, Grover Cleveland in 1888, and Al Gore in 2000. The shock of her loss to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 19, 2016 | Election, Politics
The late, great Robin Williams joked a fair bit about alcohol and drugs in his career, and given that he came up in comedy during the 1980s, cocaine got its share of attention. One of his better lines: We were talking briefly about cocaine…yeah. Anything that...
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