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 | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture
Despite my best intentions, I ended up watching a large chunk of the Oscars telecast this past Sunday. My “best intentions” were to catch Chris Rock’s opening monologue and move on to something else, but I was wrapped up in a movie and didn’t...
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...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 26, 2016 | Election, Taxation
There’s an old joke that goes “There are two types of people in the world – those who divide people into two types and those who don’t.” It mocks the common practice of bifurcating people, things, ideas and the like into binary...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 24, 2016 | Election, Politics
Yesterday’s Republican primary in Nevada, despite being only the fourth of 50, did a lot to clarify the presidential election picture. Trump won, handily, as the polls predicted, and embracing a “Trump will fade” belief is increasingly falling into...
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