by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 20, 2016 | Election
Fans of professional sports understand momentum, the unquantifiable sense that a team has taken charge of a game. There are times when we can feel the beginning of a comeback or a sense of inevitability that’s not yet reflected on a scoreboard. The other team...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 15, 2016 | Health, Politics
Conventional wisdom has, for decades, informed us that foods high in cholesterol increase our blood cholesterol levels. As it turned out, conventional wisdom is wrong. Not for the first time, and not for the last. We shouldn’t be distressed by this. It is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 8, 2016 | Economics, Health, Politics
The attached graphic crossed my browser screen today. As you can see, it’s an OMG BIG PHARMA IS EVIL graphic from the Bernie Sanders camp. It asserts that a particular drug is four times more expensive in America than it is in three nations that have socialized...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 7, 2016 | Not Politics, Opinion
I am a libertarian, which means I’m used to being a political minority and drawing puzzlement from others. I am also a fan of heavy metal music, which means I’m used to being a musical minority and drawing puzzlement from others. The latter is often in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 4, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
A wonderful quote appeared in my newsfeed the other morning: Progress cannot be plotted and blueprinted in advance; that is why it is progress. It reminded me of an anecdote from my engineering days. In an all-hands meeting regarding the technology project I was...
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