by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 23, 2020 | Culture, Opinion
On my current reading list is a series of essays by libertarian writer George H. Smith on freethought and liberty. The ninth such essay discusses Deism, a form of religious belief that rests on a view of God as a non-interventionist “clockmaker.” One of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 20, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The American system of government has been described as a “great experiment,” given how radically different it was from how the world operated at time of its inception. It was a huge success and inspired many imitators. That was a couple hundred years ago....
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 19, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
A police officer friend of mine (then a paramedic, now NYPD) and I used to debate policing inside and out during our shifts together as a paramedic team. He was a law school graduate and an intellectually honest adversary. At the risk of treating him as a...
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 6, 2020 | Culture, Opinion
I recently read a mea culpa, posted on social media, by someone who food-blogs. Apparently, his lack of messaging regarding the George Floyd incident and the Black Lives Matter movement was deemed a punishable lack of support. In other words, his failure to comment...
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