At the beginning you go to the gulag for criticizing Stalin; toward the end for being first, when his name is mentioned, to stop applauding.
Feb 062018
Feb 052018
It is the lies we tell about history that we are most apt to remember.
Feb 022018
In lieu of explanation history offers only more detail.
Feb 012018
Thanks to the Internet, all inconsequential arguments are settled immediately, and the rest go on forever.
Jan 312018
No topic provokes stupidity like intelligence.
Jan 302018
Truth’s not Beauty, but it’s interesting.
Jan 292018
Precocity, n. Unusually rapid ossification.
Jan 262018
Nazism is worse than Bolshevism, because everybody’s sober.
Jan 252018
Age would be a lot more use to Youth than the other way around.
Jan 242018
Those who disagree with us used to be evil, and then they were stupid: now they are ill.