About a century ago “poet” became a polite term for half-wit, and then it was “artist”, and it will be “scientist” sooner than you think.
Sep 142020
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Jul 092020
First we were killed by nature, then by rulers, and finally we resorted to killing ourselves.
Jun 102020
The contents of the dustbin of history are recycled endlessly.
May 212020
To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs; to make a bigger one you have to break a few more; and to make an enormous, imperishable, world-historical omelet, millions of broken eggs are required.
May 192020
The free stuff is a nice perk of communism, but the real point was always the free love.
Apr 212020
If journalism is the first draft of history, we know how far to trust history.
Apr 012020
The man a year ahead of his time is a success, the man a decade ahead is a bankrupt, and the man a century ahead is a lunatic.
Mar 112020
It is unfortunate that I forget so few of my thoughts.
Jan 292020
Like Russians for Stalin, many Americans are nostalgic for a time when we all thought the same, or at least we all thought we did.
Jan 282020
Enlightenment philosophy is Christianity without the serpent.