by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 12, 2014 | Culture, Politics
Last night I watched the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom. The film, about back-up singers in rock and roll music, won last year’s Oscar for best documentary feature. Not having seen its competition, I cannot attest to whether I agree with the award, but it was...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 6, 2014 | Politics
Watch European politics for any length of time and you will hear certain fringe political parties and groups (and in some cases not-so-fringe) described as far-right or ultra-right-wing. Typically, these groups become identified thus because of strong nationalistic...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 29, 2014 | Politics
Any libertarian who has spent enough time playing in the sandbox that is political argument, whether vocal, written or on the Internet, has had to deal with a box full of pat arguments, challenges, refutations and dismissals of libertarian philosophy. One of these is...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 25, 2014 | Politics
In an interview way back in 2009, Obama appeared on ABC and fielded a question from a woman about her elderly mother that involved late-in-life and end-of-life medical decisions. A quote from Obama caught my eye: Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2014 | Economics
A river flows downhill. You can dam it, you can divert it, you can put obstacles in it. But, no matter what you do, the water will find its way, and it will do what flowing water always does. All your interference does is hamper its optimal travel down the hill. Left...
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