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 27, 2018 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
I’ve been binge-watching an old British television series called MI-5 (or Spooks, depending where you are). One episode I watched last night, late in Season 4 (or Series 4, to use British nomenclature) included a character that was an old, unrepentant Cold War...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 24, 2018 | Immigration, Opinion
Begin with the usual modern-media ablution: in denouncements of Donald Trump I yell “Amen!” as loudly as anyone. I believe it’s outrageous to call any country a “shithole.” My ancestors came from Germany (lookin’ at you Drumpf) and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 22, 2018 | Culture, Politics
California, the land of perfect weather and perfectly loony residents, has failed to surprise the rest of us yet again by announcing massive cost overruns on an already absurdly expensive public works venture. A pipe-dream project to connect Los Angeles and San...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 18, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Political writer Salena Zito may have been the first to summarize the idea that Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally in explaining how Trump could survive uttering a seemingly endless stream of verbal gaffes and outright falsehoods in the run...
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