by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2016 | Opinion
Most of us know people who resent others’ successes when they feel they’re smarter or more capable, and writer Nick Sorrentino shares a tale about a relative who recently exhibited such behavior. The attitude exhibited by his relative, who not only averred...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 12, 2016 | Culture, Election, Politics
Watch the news on any given night, or pay attention to the political realm for any stretch of time, and you’re likely to conclude that Western civilization is descending into barbarity. The rancor that people show, the ire they feel, the outrage they claim, the...
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 | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Life lessons can sometimes appear in the oddest places. Today, it occurred to me that the movie Trading Places, the 1983 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd as a blue-blood snob and Eddie Murphy as a street hustler (and one I’ve watched many times), provides superb and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 27, 2016 | Economics, Politics
One summer, way back when I was in my mid teens, my family went on vacation to Greece, where both my parents were born. One night, on my father’s home island, we went to visit one of my father’s childhood friends, who now owned and operated one of the...
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