Rioting and looting, though usually coupled, are distinctly different interests.
Dec 222020
Dec 212020
Petty laws embolden volunteer policemen.
Dec 182020
To alleviate boredom men will do literally anything.
Dec 172020
We first have nothing but time, then everything but time, then nothing but time, then time’s up.
Dec 162020
The minuscule shall inherit the earth.
Dec 152020
Nearly all great movies adhere quite rigidly to the conventions of a genre, nearly all movies that try not to do so are disasters, and so it is with lives.
Dec 142020
Being told so much more often to Look Professional and Act Professional than Be Professional, one begins to suspect that it is in looking and acting that professionalism largely consists.
Dec 112020
Most of the things we want to talk about are continuous, and most of the ways we have to talk about them are discrete.
Dec 102020
The obscure artist awaits the verdict of posterity, unable to compete with the living, expecting to compete with the dead.
Dec 092020
The desire for respectability is the censor’s natural ally.