by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 23, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
A COVID-19 vaccine arrived, a product of human ingenuity motivated by crisis. In months, not years. Then, a second. Soon, a third. And, now, the politics. It was inevitable that there’d be debates about who should get immunized first. In a rational society, the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 22, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Many of us have a bipolar relationship with social media. On the one hand, I think it’ll go down in history as a horribly corrosive influence on human interaction and cultural advancement. On the other hand, it offers us the opportunity to “meet” and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth of a recurring (and highly irregular) series of quick-hits. Because, not everything needs a thousand words. Thanks for reading! Biden’s Mask Duplicity President-Elect Joe Biden has informed us of one element of his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 3, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
New York City’s five boroughs are a rather diverse group. Each has its own character, and each produces a distinct breed of New Yorker. Even the two that share a land border – Brooklyn and Queens – have different “feels” and different...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 28, 2020 | Election, Health, Opinion, Politics
Anyone who thought we would escape pandemic year election 2020 without maximum self-inflicted agony has not been paying attention. Naturally, lawyers have added a heapin-helpin. That a judge is throwing out Republican lawsuits in Pennsylvania that contest the election...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2020 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Editors Note: This article is a follow-up to Inconvenience or Devastation, which explores citizens’ motivations in complying with pandemic lockdowns. In the grand tradition of dividing people into two groups, today sort people based on their attitude toward...
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