The capitalists will sell the communists the rope with which they will jointly hang the remaining holdouts against our glorious corpo-progressive future.
Nov 152019
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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Nov 082019
All motives are base; some actions are noble.
Oct 072019
What you get is, to a first approximation, what you want.
Sep 182019
If no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money, then world literature is almost entirely the province of blockheads.
Aug 132019
It is crime, of all fields, that most attracts the woefully underqualified.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jul 242019
To learn the status of an identity, count how many people fake it.
May 302019
Late capitalism is a myth: late democracy is real.
Mar 272019
It is expensive to be poor, and wildly expensive to be stupid.
Mar 112019
Rich societies produce leisure sufficient for folly, and democratic societies make this everybody’s problem.