by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 5, 2016 | Environment
I’m currently reading a series of books, collectively known as the Iron Druid Chronicles They are tales of, you guessed it, a “druid,” in this case a worshiper of the Earth aka Gaia, set in present-day. This puts the books into the category of Urban...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture
Despite my best intentions, I ended up watching a large chunk of the Oscars telecast this past Sunday. My “best intentions” were to catch Chris Rock’s opening monologue and move on to something else, but I was wrapped up in a movie and didn’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 20, 2016 | Culture
It’s a good time to be a nerd. All across the landscape, nerd culture is paramount. The top-rated comedy on television is The Big Bang Theory, a show about a group of very smart, very nerdy science types who work at CalTech on science stuff. Police procedurals,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2016 | Culture
The evolutionary biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins was caught up in a brouhaha after sharing on his Twitter feed a link to a video that mockingly depicts a commonality between the beliefs of Islamists and feminists. Dawkins’ tweet included the comment...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2016 | Culture, Politics
I often find a fair bit of schadenfreude when I witness by-the-book liberals twisting in the winds of dissonance. One of the more satisfying forms of this comes when an organization exalted by the Left says something that the Left cannot abide. Watching the outrage,...
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