by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2016 | Election, Politics
It seemed inevitable. It became so after the DNC email debacle. Clinton’s supporters, having won the primary fight, have started getting nasty with those Sanders supporters who feel their candidate got rooked. The latter are irate, and they’re showing it....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Politics
There’s an old bit of folklore, told in various forms, about a man who got a flat tire and pulled over outside the fence of a mental institution. The story relates how, as he started changing the tire, he noticed a man on the other side of the fence staring at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Election, Politics
The fallout from the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State has spilled over into the realm of legal theory. Legal experts, (what would we do without experts?) have opined with a supposed maxim of our...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2016 | Election, Politics
Yesterday’s episode of the OMG did he really say that!? Donald Trump reality show gave us some useful insights. Not into the man himself, whose snarky carnival barker style is already well-known and fully established, but into the press that covers him. The...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2016 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Thus spoke then-President George W. Bush a week after the 9/11 attacks. He was, of course, referring to the terrorists that perpetrated the attacks and radical Islam in general. This statement, lauded by some and mocked by others, endures, and will always be...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2016 | Election, Politics
Much as I think Bernie Sanders’ supporters are misguided and naive for backing a man who’s selling an ideology as demonstrably destructive as socialism, I admire and respect their anger and their refusal to capitulate to the Democratic machine. Especially...
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