by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 22, 2018 | Politics
Many readers of a certain age know and are fond of the movie Office Space, with its many quotable lines and memorable moments, but I have a greater nostalgia for a similarly named but somewhat older movie, called Head Office. In the latter, a young Judge Reinhold is...
by Karl Wright | Jun 16, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The first presidential election I fully participated in was in 1980. I spent a fair bit of time watching the evening news, and learning from them that Ronald Reagan was willing, nay eager, to start a nuclear war. Furthermore, he had authoritarian tendencies comparable...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 5, 2018 | Drug Policy
The number of drug addicts in the USA is on the rise, and opioid overdoses are killing Americans at rate where policy must adapt. Adapt, because our attempt to incarcerate our way out of this problem has resulted in what is the greatest jailing of people in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 4, 2018 | Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics
Like all proper thinking libertarians (No True Scotsman notwithstanding), I welcomed and applauded the recent passage of the Right To Try bill. Naturally, given that Trump specifically promoted passage of the bill in his State of the Union address, the left-o-sphere...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2018 | Health
A recent Wall Street Journal “Best of the Web” column included an amusing bit of snark: Paul R. Ehrlich, Call Your Office – World faces ‘staggering obesity challenge: study.” For those unaware, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote a book called The...
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