by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 26, 2021 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and probable Presidential aspirant, recently signed a set of bills banning the mandating of COVID vaccines by schools and businesses. That he did so in the town of Brandon, population 100K and nearly a 5 hour drive from the state...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 18, 2021 | Culture, Education, Election, Opinion, Politics
There are many things the Government is empowered to do. There’s a list of them in the Constitution. A couple centuries of revision, a hundred-year-plus Progressive movement, and a few egregious moments of Supreme Court malpractice have expanded the list far...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 15, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
The act of scalping (the cutting off of a part of a victim’s scalp as a trophy, not the act of reselling event tickets at a large markup) has been part of human history for thousands of years, and only fell out of practice in the past century or two. It’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
Time and again, I hear the same refrain. My concerns, warnings, and accusations regarding the advent of socialist thinking and policy in America is baseless, or ill-founded, or a Fox News talking point regurgitation, or paranoia, or petulance. Simultaneously, I bear...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
Hollywood is making another attempt at making a film version of the science fiction classic Dune. We already have David Lynch’s 1984 version by David Lynch, which I didn’t care for, and a SyFy channel miniseries from 2000, which I enjoyed rather more. The...
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