by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 17, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Mask and vax. Or else. That seems to be the sum total of government’s policy set on managing COVID in our society. Excepting those benighted red states (and some blue ones, I’m glad to report), which any right-thinking-leftist knows is being run by idiots...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 12, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
On reading about the British scandal involving Owen Paterson, Minister of Parliament (pictured), I yelled “Pikers!” Then I just wanted to pat them on the head, innocents as they are to political grifting: the British are undone with shame by behavior that...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 30, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics
One of the few things our divided America agrees on is that our criminal justice system is failing. That the explanation and solution would be polar opposites is a separate matter. Leftists point at the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting, Righties point at the Darrel Brooks...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 15, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
The act of scalping (the cutting off of a part of a victim’s scalp as a trophy, not the act of reselling event tickets at a large markup) has been part of human history for thousands of years, and only fell out of practice in the past century or two. It’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 14, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Ponder this bit, from an article about how identity politics has infiltrated archaeology: [T]he archaeologist Bruce Bourque recently published a lengthy essay on Quillette about his attempts to decipher the genetic identity of an ancient maritime New England tribe...
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