by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 12, 2018 | Guns, Politics
I read a new word today. “Gunsplaining.” If you’re a pro-gun-rights type who’s engaged in any degree of debate, you immediately know what it means. But, for everyone else, put simply, it’s a derisive description of the act of correcting...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 10, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Consider the Bible’s Matthew Effect, often interpreted as “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” At first this would seem unchristian, hardly of the same school as “the meek shall inherit the earth.” Seen through the lens of life...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 7, 2018 | Culture, Not Politics, Opinion
Netflix recently released its next bit of original content, a 10 episode adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s superb science fiction novel Altered Carbon. The story, which takes place 500 years hence, is of a world where alien technology has been used to enable...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 31, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
One basic rule of logical debate tells us that anecdotes are not data, and that setting policy based on singular instances is a bad idea. Much to Sheldon Cooper’s dismay, however, we are not a planet of Vulcans, where Spock-like logic and emotional detachment...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 3, 2018 | Economics, Health
A recent announcement in the UK, that all non-essential surgery scheduled in January is to be cancelled in order to free up hospital space in expectation of a heavy flu season, raises a reality that advocates for socialized medicine in America routinely overlook or...
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