by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 3, 2016 | Election, Politics
A few weeks back, my internet perambulations brought me to a column about Donald Trump by Camille Paglia. Aside from her candid take on the GOP presidential candidate, what caught my eye were several letters and responses to letters regarding some comments that Paglia...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2016 | Opinion
Most of us know people who resent others’ successes when they feel they’re smarter or more capable, and writer Nick Sorrentino shares a tale about a relative who recently exhibited such behavior. The attitude exhibited by his relative, who not only averred...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 8, 2016 | Election, Politics
The most common descriptor in American politics is the Left-Right axis. Democrats and liberals are considered to be on and embody the Left, and Republicans and conservatives are considered to be on and embody the Right. The axis is woefully inadequate for the task...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 5, 2016 | Environment
I’m currently reading a series of books, collectively known as the Iron Druid Chronicles They are tales of, you guessed it, a “druid,” in this case a worshiper of the Earth aka Gaia, set in present-day. This puts the books into the category of Urban...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 27, 2016 | Economics, Politics
One summer, way back when I was in my mid teens, my family went on vacation to Greece, where both my parents were born. One night, on my father’s home island, we went to visit one of my father’s childhood friends, who now owned and operated one of the...
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