Only the perfect bore never bores himself.
Feb 192019
Feb 182019
We can be sure, when we are told that all interpretation is biased, that an egregiously biased interpretation will shortly follow.
Feb 152019
Today’s atrocities are committed for Equality and Justice; tomorrow’s will be committed for Love.
Feb 142019
A sudden influx into a profession or discipline signals either its robust health or its terminal illness.
Feb 132019
Sometimes the contagion is the thing, sometimes its expression: mirth and yawning are contagious, laughter and boredom are not.
Feb 122019
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches; and he who does, usually cannot teach.
Feb 112019
Attacks on good are bilge: praise for trash is poison.
Feb 082019
It is tempting to license writers, if only so the ones who write about how difficult writing is can have theirs revoked.
Feb 072019
The purpose of writing is to assemble a zombie army.
Feb 062019
Peer review is a cargo cult.