If a common tactic never works, it’s not supposed to.
Nov 232020
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Oct 272020
The darkest hour is just before it all goes black for good.
Oct 232020
You only get so many chances to keep your mouth shut.
Oct 022020
Help whom you love, lest you love whom you help.
Oct 012020
It turns out that other people care a great deal what you think, as long as they can punish you for it.
Sep 222020
Parade, n. Mob in waiting.
Sep 212020
One obtains a reputation for prophecy by predicting what is already happening that no one else has noticed.
Sep 152020
Most things are too big, and the bigger they get the worse they are.
Sep 102020
If you throw like a girl, you probably argue like one.
Aug 312020
There are reference works that ought to exist but do not, being too much trouble to assemble. The Encyclopedia of Musical Plagiarism is one, and The Historical Atlas of English Pronunciation is another.