To improve discourse on social media, I am authoritatively informed, the enlightened must be kinder, more patient, and less patronizing with the unwashed.
May 232022
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
May 112022
One is the trustiest sample size.
Apr 212022
An event scheduled long in advance grows ominous as it nears: one resents one’s past self for impudently binding the present.
Mar 282022
Americans understand nothing about the rest of the world, which returns the favor.
Mar 252022
After every vice has been declared a syndrome, a disorder to be diagnosed and treated, the virtues will shortly follow.
Mar 142022
A civilization that can defend science only by pointing to its fruits, technology, will soon destroy its science, and eventually its technology too.
Mar 022022
One should never speak ill of the dead, who in the worst case have done a great service, by dying.
Feb 212022
Some anonymous wit once said he didn’t care what you did as long as you didn’t do it in the street and frighten the horses. The West is embarking on its second century of frightening the horses.
Feb 182022
Beware the too-helpful, who have nothing better to do.
Jan 282022
All traits influenced by genetics differ across populations, and all traits are influenced by genetics.