It is rare, in discursive writing, to encounter an argument at all, let alone a sound one.
May 252021
May 242021
Don’t ask which of your beliefs are wrong. Ask which are pointless.
May 212021
It is possible, indeed necessary, to be both disgusted and amused.
May 202021
The state does not require or even seek your approval, only your acquiescence.
May 192021
Few of the useful idiots I have known have been any use to me.
May 182021
We affect to despise ignorant bigotry, when it is knowledgeable, highly cultivated bigotry that we really find objectionable.
May 172021
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation, and eventually it finds out how much.
May 142021
It is a landmark in a writer’s career when he first finds his work put to purposes of which he does not approve.
May 132021
The punishment for a hit is to watch your aging audience stifle their boredom while they wait for you to play it, at every show, until you quit or die.
May 122021
The micromanager constantly remarks his hatred of micromanaging, as if he were driven to it, as a last resort, by the sheer fecklessness of his underlings.