by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 31, 2016 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Political correctness and social justice are complicated and ever-evolving movements, but they can be distilled down to a simple, Manichean dualism: You are either oppressor or oppressed. What you are depends on demographic markers: race, gender, ethnicity, sexual...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 7, 2016 | Opinion
While we already have enough post-mortems of the Democratic Party’s decimation to fill a ten gallon hat, a couple tidbits that I came across this morning suggested that there’s always room for more. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest held a press...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2016 | Opinion
Or Are You Just Showing Off? Donald Trump hasn’t taken office yet. He hasn’t taken any real policy actions yet, the Carrier dog-and-pony show notwithstanding. He is in the process of nominating his cabinet, but that cabinet has neither been confirmed nor...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 29, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
Fidel Castro died last week. Good riddance. While I’m normally loath to speak ill of the dead, there are justifiable exceptions. Castro, who killed tens of thousands of his people and kept millions in abject poverty while amassing a billion dollar personal...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 19, 2016 | Election, Politics
The late, great Robin Williams joked a fair bit about alcohol and drugs in his career, and given that he came up in comedy during the 1980s, cocaine got its share of attention. One of his better lines: We were talking briefly about cocaine…yeah. Anything that...
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