by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 4, 2020 | Health, Opinion
Weekends during my childhood often involved watching old Abbott and Costello films on one of the local television channels. One bit had Costello find Abbott and some other men playing craps. Costello naively asked what they were doing, and Abbott, thinking Lou was a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Back at the turn of the century – the 19th century, that is, a movement arose to battle against graft and corruption in government, by supporting candidates of a reform mindset. They were mockingly called goo-goos, short, of course, for...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Education, Politics
A recent kerfuffle on the gossip pages involved the engagement of 65 year old Dennis Quaid to his 26 year old girlfriend. It’ll be his fourth marriage and her first. Typing “Dennis Quaid” into Twitter’s search field offered, as the third...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 26, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics
America’s opioid crisis has been uniquely lethal. A look around the world shows us how other nations have mitigated it much more successfully. For starters, we can say drug policy in America is killing people through failure to adapt, but there are two other...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 23, 2019 | Culture, Politics
Criminal justice reform, long a cause of libertarians and others who respect the rights of citizens, has in the blink of an eye gone from addressing injustices and prosecutorial excess to condoning lawlessness and abandoning government’s fundamental duty to...
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