by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 13, 2020 | Culture, Politics
As I read this long but interesting essay on arguments for and against religious persecution in history, I flashed back to my college and post-college gamer days, specifically a running gag I had with a friend. In the Dungeons and Dragons milieu, clerical characters...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 9, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Regular readers should, by now, be familiar with the reforms that we’ve proposed in the wake of George Floyd’s death-by-cop. These reform proposals are by no means unique to this blog, of course, but the more of us that repeat them, the more chance that...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 8, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
George Floyd’s killer, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, has a history that reminded me of an incident and individual from my days working as a paramedic for the FDNY in Brooklyn. My partner and I were dispatched to a developing riot. As we turned across...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 5, 2020 | Guns, Health, Politics
The riots (and more germanely, the looting) that have come to dominate the George Floyd story have added to a societal paradigm shift initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. People’s easy complacency about daily life is being shattered, and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 4, 2020 | Culture, Health, Politics
I have friends in the NYPD who describe to me constantly being approached by “youths” that make a finger gun at them and say something like “turn your back on me, piggie, and see what you get.” A lot of the cops have strapped on extra guns...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 4, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
As the George Floyd protests continue to be overshadowed by the looters, rioters, and the simply violent, people who are used to splitting everything into the standard left-right divide are cherry-picking their culprits. Progressives are blaming white supremacists,...
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