by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 21, 2015 | Politics
Jerry Pournelle, a prolific science fiction writer, blessed us with a particular bit of wisdom that the dubbed the Iron Law of Bureaucracy. It states: In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 10, 2015 | Environment
An Internet friend posted an amusing link this morning, broadcast with the scary headline Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate. It’s a me, me, look at me! bit of self-puffery that latches onto one of the sillier aspects of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 7, 2015 | Culture, Politics
[Kim Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_(county_clerk), a county clerk in Kentucky, recently grabbed national headlines because she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that made gay marriage legal...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 2, 2015 | Culture, Economics, Politics
An Internet friend recently posted a meme that posited the question Why is Denmark the Happiest Place in the World? and offered up “$20 Minimum Wage,” “33 Hour Work Week” and free school, child care and health care as the reasons. This bit of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 25, 2015 | Culture
A story popped up today during my Internet perambulations. It involved a teacher demonstrating the concept of privilege to a classroom. The teacher placed a trash pail at the front of a room of seated students, gave them each a piece of paper, had them crumple that...
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