by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 7, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
A sorta-provocative headline at the Washington Post, “It’s Time to Give Socialism A Try,” made me a bit cranky this morning. Having seen this sort of sentiment more times than I can count, I’ve developed a standard first response, along the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2018 | Culture, Guns, Opinion
Part 1 Of A Two-Part Look At the Parkland Mass Shooting Another horrific school shooting. Followed, as usual, by instant outrage, virtue signaling, finger-pointing, and “do-something” demands, all before facts and circumstances become known. Some scream at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 28, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
It’s become quite fashionable to call Trump, and by extension all who support him, “fascist.” That is, of course, when people aren’t going full-Godwin (I had one such conversation yesterday, where someone was conflating Trump with Hitler, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 23, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
The devolvement of identity politics into a zero-sum, grievance-hierarchy scrum is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in Hollywood and the entertainment industry overall. Political correctness has become a necessity in modern entertainment production, with diversity...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 14, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
The shitstorm over Trump’s shit hole remark is remarkable because of its predictability. No, I don’t speak of the vulgarian-in-chief’s routinely intemperate ways. I refer to the reactions and counter-reactions, which have become as predictable as the...
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